burlap
IPA: bˈɝɫæp
noun
- (US) A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
verb
- (transitive) To wrap or cover in burlap.
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Examples of "burlap" in Sentences
- A simple link to Burlap will suffice.
- The backing may be wool, linen or burlap.
- I liked the one with Rygel in a burlap bag.
- Steve Dash even said it was cloth and not burlap.
- The name 'burlap' appears to be of unknown origin.
- A gunny sack is an inexpensive bag made of burlap.
- According to press reports, the body was in a burlap bag.
- Then I wrap it in burlap for a bit of shelter and concealment.
- A pocket is situated on a portion of the background burlap cover.
- The fire was the result of pyrotechnics igniting a burlap sandbag.
- The burlap was painted blue and black with hints of silver for the whitecaps .
- Bayou La Batre, Ala., to Galveston, Tex., he became known as the burlap-sack guy.
- A hideous figure clothed in burlap and with an exploded head reclined in the seat.
- I have several that haven’t bloomed well, despite being wrapped in burlap over winter.
- A sleepy Anna gazes longingly at Ping's empty bed as if thinking "Oh the fun we had, draping each other in burlap and rolling down Madison Avenue!"
- Polish artist Piotr Uklański, for example, is showing a 40-foot-wide, untitled burlap curtain with patches of colorful fabric that evoke American folk art.
- Kristen also lacked style -- Simon, commenting on her dress which could best be described as a burlap sack that fell into a vat of pink Easter egg dye, said it "looked like your Mum styled you."
- I did a paper on torture in college and I can never forget the worst ones: the glass tube shoved into the penis and then broken while the tortured person is forced to drink glass after glass of water, the legs encased in a vise and put in a burlap sack and then pounded with hammers until the burlap is the only thing holding them together.