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sackcloth sentence examples

  • Men cut off their beards, people shave their heads; they make cuts on their hands and wear sackcloth.
  • Like that of the bridge crew, he too was adorned in black sackcloth.
  • Sackcloth made of hair and the moon becomes like blood.
  • Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
  • Will they don sackcloth and ashes, and promise to treat cop and state sources more skeptically in future?

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