sac
Example Sentences
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Then came the worst part: I passed the amniotic sac.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Meanwhile, the cul de sac, a street design much in favor with the architects of suburban developments, have become artificial catchments for these highly flammable weeds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Battling strong currents, Ralph Pace captured this image of a swell shark egg case, revealing a glowing embryo, complete with gill slits and a yolk sac.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
The organism’s various states of evolution — as an egg sac or the Facehuggers that hatch from them — are back too.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025
The creature in the sac seemed horribly unformed and unfinished, as if two plasticine people had been warmed and rolled together, squashed and pressed into one thing.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing sac
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