sackcloth

IPA: sˈækkɫɔθ

Examples of "sackcloth" in Sentences

He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
Anat too wears sackcloth when she finds the fake dead body.
I don't want an apology, I don't want sackcloth and ashes...
The harrow caught up what seemed to be some kind of sackcloth.
Grandpa: We were so poor then, we lived in sackcloth and ashes.
What would be the point of covering myself in sackcloth and ashes?
He attended Canterbury in sackcloth and ashes as a sign of penance.
Sackcloth bags are not completely necessary but generally preferred.
` Nor will you be able to take pleasure in sackcloth, 'he said gravely.
One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sackcloth and ashes.
They will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Sackcloth is the material to make sackings or the cloth derived from sacks.
Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they are continuing their work of expiation.
On two occasions he went out in public wearing sackcloth as a sign of protest.
But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
In those days, people walked around in sackcloth and ashes, when they were in mourning, fasting, or in a state of repentance.
In my view, the Deputy Chief should have been round to the house in sackcloth on bended knee, apologising in person for such a crass move.