burlap
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But even if there’s no hard camera footage of Kao giving Collins burlap sacks full of cash, there is undoubtedly a story that she got duped into delivering federal dollars to a scammer.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
Leaning on a burlap bag brimming with gum arabic, Ahmad pointed to a map on a journalist’s phone to show the circuitous path he took to get here.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Investigators took a swab from a leftover pizza crust Heuermann threw out in 2023, linking him to a hair found on the burlap sack Waterman’s remains were found in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
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
Once he’d left, we got to explore the midway on our own, the air rushing past us as we rocketed down a giant yellow slide on burlap sacks.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
So, throughout the days of the journey, the man gazed with avarice upon the piles of burlapped pieces, while his brain devised the scheme.
From The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
By the middle of September such household goods as the Daltons had planned to take with them were packed, burlapped, crated, and labeled.
From The Tangled Threads by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
She bowled Sarah smoothly back to the burlapped studio in time for the eleven-twenty pupil.
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell