(n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
(n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
(n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
(n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
(n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(n.) See 2d Sac, 2.
(n.) Bed.
(v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
(v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
(n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
(v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
Example Sentences:
(1) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(2) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(3) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(4) The decortication is aimed at removing the chronic pleural sack and the possible parenchymatous lesions and at the recovery of the maximum functional pulmonary parenchyma.
(5) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
(6) Sacked Cronulla star Todd Carney said he was shattered when he learned a picture of him urinating in his own mouth in a nightclub toilet had been posted on social media.
(7) I inherited Ted-Fred from my mother, a one-eyed and wholly uncuddly pre-war sack of mange (the bear, not my mum), and I had briefly loved Albert, a brown knitted dog, although I have very little memory of him.
(8) The Welshman was sacked by a club who felt he could not meet their target of a place in the top four despite being given £200m to spend on players and further huge investment in training facilities and other infrastructure at the club.
(9) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
(10) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
(11) Most of the directors had lost faith in Moyes in February and Woodward's opinion was that he could have been sacked, justifiably, any time over the last two months.
(12) At first glance it seemed to be Carlos Alberto Parreira, a man who was sacked by Saudi Arabia after losing his first two matches at France 1998.
(13) Arnesen then compounded his problems by connecting sackings of his own scouting staff to Abramovich's recent financial losses - angering the Russian billionaire.
(14) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.
(15) What a transformation for Coleman who, just over a year ago, had to fend off calls for the sack.
(16) Shoesmith was sacked without compensation by the north London council in December 2008 after a public and media outcry over the death of 17-month-old Peter Connelly, known as Baby P , a year earlier.
(17) The military leadership should have been sacked after the loss of Crimea, he said.
(18) The entire Carnarvon council should be sacked after refusing to fly the Aboriginal flag during Naidoc week, the local MP says.
(19) Luckily for him, nobody chose to point out that this was the least he could have done to guarantee he wouldn’t have to sack himself if the electorate voted to leave.
(20) This will mean that if you are sacked because your boss takes against you or because of a misunderstanding, you will be on your own unless you can afford to pay for a lawyer or you are a member of a trade union.
Satchel
Definition:
(n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.
Example Sentences:
(1) A: Julie Dean of the Cambrige Satchel Co: "We're introducing allotments...?"
(2) Now a human rights lawyer, Ronan was originally named Satchel after baseball player Satchel Paige, who his presumed father was a fan of.
(3) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
(4) After school last week, a gaggle of African children heading home with their satchels waved at the elderly Italian men lined up on chairs for a gossip outside the barber shop.
(5) Today it's a more Timbuk2 satchel and North Face fleece aesthetic (although that's partly a function of the 90F (32C) heat of DC in August and the mid-50s (12C) autumnal weather of October).
(6) Co-owner and Founder, The Cambridge Satchel Company.
(7) You’ll pay more than you would at Old Delhi’s bazaars, but you’ll still get a bargain: Rajasthani leather satchels go for the equivalent of £12, hallmarked silver bracelets start at £14, cashmere shawls are £8, hand-embroidered silk purses £3 and hand-woven wool carpets start at only £8.
(8) With Ronan as his new name – until recently, he was known as Satchel Farrow – and now with possible new paternity, he seems willfully made up.
(9) Gove attended one writers’ round-table meeting a week, where all he did was badger the producers to book the former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming , upon whom he was oddly fixated, before leaving with all the office washroom’s toilet rolls secreted in his satchel.
(10) I set off cycling up the East River bike path, but soon realise Freitas’s cake won’t survive the journey in my satchel.
(11) The walk was fine in spring or summer; Sara quite liked it, swinging her satchel, listening to the unfamiliar sounds of birds and insects.
(12) Jeannie Satchell, their trainer, is encouraging people to think through where they want to be in five years' time.
(13) Mia Farrow suggested in a Vanity Fair interview that Ronan, 25, may not have been the son of her then husband Woody Allen ; Ronan, formerly known as Satchel, is also estranged from Allen.
(14) "I arrived in adulthood with a satchel of goods and one of the things in my satchel was [the feeling] that I'm not quite enough.
(15) They have replaced briefcases, overtaken the messenger bag in the affection of cyclists (better for a laptop), subsumed the satchel fad.
(16) Satchell is brimming with enthusiasm about where self-employment can take them.
(17) But no code of cross-party working will deal with the deeper problem revealed by Messrs Gove and Laws slinging their satchels at each other.
(18) Both were given the award for entrepreneurship, as were Julie Deane, who founded the Cambridge Satchel Company, and Richard Moross, founder of online printer Moo.com.