How to Use sackcloth in a Sentence
sackcloth
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Image Once there was a man who wore the finest silks in Italy, but traded them all for sackcloth.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 May 2018
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One of the dancers has a suppurating wound wrapped in sackcloth.
—Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2018
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And there will still be someone who feels a need to leave a comment saying that the sackcloth is decadent.
—Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2018
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Go sit in sackcloth and ashes or whatever and look within.
—Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
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The Dodgers have been on a pretty good hot streak the last couple of weeks, but that doesn’t stop some fans from gnashing their teeth and wearing sackcloth and ashes after each loss.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
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The donning of sackcloth and ashes for this once-mighty art form is an annual ritual.
—A. O. Scott, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2016
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The mask had been the most joylessly visible way of signaling one’s virtue since sackcloth and ashes.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 17 May 2021
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Like in medieval times when people wore sackcloth and ashes, the ash mark is a call to repentance and preparation in the season leading up to Easter, which will be on April 16 for Christians around the world.
—Greg Garrison, AL.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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Aesthetic moms, the memes say, ignore their kid’s request for a Paw Patrol cake and instead opt for an uniced bake featuring twigs, leaves, and sackcloth banners.
—Amelia Tait, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
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The ashes also represent penance — sackcloth and ashes.
—The Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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These comments show people will not be happy until women are wearing sackcloth and refusing any sustenance but the raindrops that fall into their open mouths.
—Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2018
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