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sackcloth - use in sentences
Converse of object
- wear: Men cut off their beards, people shave their heads; they make cuts on their hands and wear sackcloth.
- make: The sun becomes black as sackcloth made of hair and the moon becomes like blood.
- spread: Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
- don: Will they don sackcloth and ashes, and promise to treat cop and State sources more skeptically in future?
Adjective modifier
- black: Like that of the bridge crew, he too was adorned in black sackcloth.
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