burlap
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It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
They’re the only actors who’ve internalized that this is screwball stuff, despite the realistic cinematography that throws wet burlap on the nonsense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
After the fossil hunters had recorded as much data as they could about where Apex was found, its bones were taped up in protective “jackets” made of plaster and burlap and lifted onto a trailer.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
It wouldn’t strain the imagination to picture him clutching burlap sacks printed with the euro symbol.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
Opposite, dark against the bright rectangle of the doorway beside it, draped burlap covered a bunch of things mounted on the wall.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
It was burlapped at purchase, which of course we removed before planting.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
All about him, burlapped cuttings rest like tablets brought down from Mount Sinai.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
That is, he watched one of the corded and burlapped chests.
From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe
At the mouth of La Biche a half-dozen burlapped pieces were removed from a cache in a thicket of balsam and added to the outfit.
From The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
She bowled Sarah smoothly back to the burlapped studio in time for the eleven-twenty pupil.
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
