Examples of 'sackcloth' in a sentence
Meaning of "sackcloth"
Sackcloth refers to a coarse material made from goat's hair or other rough fibers, historically worn as a symbol of mourning or penitence
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- A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
- Garments worn as an act of penance.
- Made of sackcloth.
How to use "sackcloth" in a sentence
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Now you must go in sackcloth and ashes.
Sackcloth was what people wore to a funeral.
And the sun became as black as sackcloth.
I have lain in sackcloth on the earth.
The sun turned black like sackcloth.
Spare me the sackcloth and ashes.
This tells us the meaning of the sackcloth.
And me for the sackcloth and the ashes.
That stuff you have got is like sackcloth.
I would put on sackcloth and ashes.
His harrow apparently caught on sackcloth.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin.
The sun became black as sackcloth.
Long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
She will go to the stake in a fancy sackcloth smock.
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You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.
I forgot how he called this sackcloth.
I believe a piece of sackcloth was used to rub blood on the shoe.
Brown gabardine cloaks and sackcloth wraps.
Sackcloth bags are not completely necessary but generally preferred.
Mordecai sits at home in sackcloth and ashes.
You dress in sackcloth and cover yourselves with ashes.
The sun became black as a sackcloth of hair.
They will wear sackcloth during their time of prophecy.
What we fail to see is the sackcloth within.
Sackcloth and ashes.
I would marry you in sackcloth and ashes.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth.
Many of them sat in sackcloth and ashes.
But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth.
Mafalda died in sackcloth and ashes.
And we can not even get some sackcloth.
They will wear rough sackcloth instead of rich robes.
Man and beast must be covered with sackcloth.
Canted in sackcloth and ashes.
He made oil paintings on sackcloth.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.
We will be hip deep in sackcloth and ashes.
There was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth.
Some holy men affected sackcloth and ashes.
The king told every man and beast to be covered with sackcloth.
The right will put on sackcloth and ashes.
The king proclaims that man and beast must fast and be clothed in sackcloth.
There is no need for the sackcloth and ashes.
Anat too wears sackcloth when she finds the fake dead body.
Their way would be wearing sackcloth and ashes.
Rather sackcloth and ashes till my dying day than stealing da Vinci.
And the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair.
King David and the elders of Israel were all dressed in sackcloth.
And the sun became blackas sackcloth made of hair.
