sack - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • bulge: Anyway, from the depths of my bulging sack - I bring you news of remakes!
  • unload: Fifty miles away, beside a 600-strong camp of Zanu militia, lorries were unloading sacks of maize.

Adjective modifier

  • hacky: Quite often they were in awe of someone's prowess ( quite often their own ) with a hacky sack or skipping rope.
  • biodegradable: Paper is shredded after full use, and biodegradable sacks are used for the little rubbish they produce.
  • reusable: Your school will be provided with a shoe reuse bin and reusable sacks small enough to store in a corridor or classroom corner.
  • pink: This does not apply to the pink refuse sacks.
  • diaper: Apart from diaper waste sacks, only refuse left inside the shut wheeled bin is collected.
  • plastic: Do not use plastic sacks - the humidity will be too high, which stimulates sprouting.

Modifies a noun

  • hoist: The sack hoist is the most important item in the windmill.

Noun used with modifier

  • ruck: You wear it on your back like a ruck sack so there is nothing for you or the horse to trip over.
  • hessian: Two ladies ( Mrs Burgess and Mrs Hall ) were employed to sew up and mend the hessian sacks - quite a messy job.
  • burlap: Turtles: After being trapped, live turtles are shipped to biological supply companies in burlap sacks labeled " seafood.
  • polythene: This is a view with the lid removed, showing the polythene sack and cloth filter wrapped over the lip of the tub.
  • compression: Comes in a strong compression sack with carry handles.
  • refuse: Guides will always take charge of their client's refuse sack.

Preposition: of

  • spud: Cheap to produce and with the cut of a sack of spuds.
  • flour: They broke out of the barracks, stormed Tidemills and took 300 sacks of flour from the sloop ship Lucy.
  • potato: You'll look like a sack of potatoes in a week.
  • corn: From a full sack of corn, about 80 % would be turned into flour and 20 % into bran.

Preposition: by

  • Dane: A port sacked by the Danes in 988 ( BF, p. 159 ).

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