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'Open your sack, Mr Fox, open your sack,' cried the cat to him, but the dogs had already seized him, and were holding him fast.

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 Meanings and Examples of SACK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sack
 n.  bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases; enclosed space
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
2  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
3  Then the man in the tree answered, 'Lift up thine eyes, for behold here I sit in the sack of wisdom; here have I, in a short time, learned great and wondrous things.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TURNIP
4  So the student let him down, opened the sack, and set him free.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TURNIP
5  Then he pushed him in head first, tied up the sack, and soon swung up the searcher after wisdom dangling in the air.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TURNIP
6  'Open your sack, Mr Fox, open your sack,' cried the cat to him, but the dogs had already seized him, and were holding him fast.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE FOX AND THE CAT
7  Yes, yes, make your mind easy, he shall be decently interred in the newest sack we can find.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
8  Meanwhile the operation of putting the body in the sack was going on.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
9  The two men, approaching the ends of the bed, took the sack by its extremities.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.
10  With a mighty leap he rose to the surface of the sea, while the shot dragged down to the depths the sack that had so nearly become his shroud.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
11  As he picked up the sack of oats and turned away, a wobbly-wheeled wagon swayed out of a side street and creaked up to them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  There was an open barrel of cornmeal on the floor, a small sack of flour, a pound of coffee, a little sugar, a gallon jug of sorghum and two hams.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  He wore a black sack suit and a lilac tie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
15  Before we left, Peter put ripe cucumbers into a sack for Mrs. Shimerda and gave us a lard-pail full of milk to cook them in.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
2  Bind the sack before it be full.
3  A bird had pecked a hole in the sack.
4  The hen pecked a hole in the sack.
5  Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
6  We need about a sack of rice.
7  He wants the power to sack incompetent teachers.
8  An empty sack cannot stand upright.
9  Richard did not deviate from his daily routine: every day he set off for work at eight o'clock, had his sack lunch at 12:15, and headed home at the stroke of five.
10  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more.
11  Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes -- and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
12  I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug.
13  The boss sacked a dilatory worker yesterday.
14  Nanjing city was sacked by Japanese aggressors.
15  The club have sacked their coach.