sacking
IPA: sˈækɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
- (countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
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Examples of "sacking" in Sentences
- The tongues of the bells he wrapped in sacking tied with grasses.
- Mr. Harkness used a method of breaking horses called sacking out.
- He was wearing a very smooth line in Italian sacking and all that soot wouldn't be doing it any good at all but he didn't seem to care.
- "Durrani was working an American agenda, and his sacking was a step in right direction," said Gen. Aslam Beg, a former chief of army staff.
- The White House has said the idea of sacking federal prosecutors came from Harriet Miers, who replaced Gonzales as White House counsel after his cabinet promotion.
- Aside from how deeply I dislike the idea of sacking someone for talking about the creative process comics are apparently like sausages and laws: if you like the finished product, you should never find out how they're made, it's of interest to me, of course, because McDuffie directly namechecks Black Canary.
- But with the outrage yielding some of the most violent attacks the Middle East has seen lately (outside of Iraq, that is) - namely the sacking of the Danish consulate in Beirut and of the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus - the protesters have gotten what they clearly are after: a closer look from the Western media.
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