There's something moving over on that pile of old burlap sacks!
Beneath logs, burlap bags, and other cover in old orange orchards (Blatchley, 1920).
In folds of burlap bag, Florida (Rehn and Hebard, 1914).
Then put a leather covering over the burlap, sewing it to the burlap on the under side.
It is well to tack strips of heavy cloth--burlap will do--along the edges under the zinc to form a water-tight joint.
The work of providing camouflage cover required enormous quantities of burlap to be cut up into strips.
The camouflage material produced in quantity by the British consisted principally of burlap cut in strips about 1 inch wide and 12 inches long, colored in the desired hues with oil-emulsion paint.
Hundreds of thousands of bags and great quantities of burlap furnished by the salvage division were utilized for army purposes.
The invention of this machine increases the production of burlap strips 900 per cent with the same force.
Thus, by wrapping bales in burlap pieces of proper size, there was saved a considerable amount of cargo space previously occupied by baled burlap being shipped to France to be made into sandbags.
Our Engineers made this decision because of the impossibility of finding permanent dyes for raffia and because raffia is more inflammable than burlap and scarcer and higher in price.
Considerable burlap used for packing, as well as burlap bags, silk for flags, hat bands, and badges were also purchased in quantity.
A scheme of packing shoes for overseas shipment in burlap bags instead of in boxes was worked out, and it resulted in saving a great deal of space on board ship.
The lumber which might have gone into these boxes requires 30 years for its growth, but the burlap covering the bales was made of jute, which is raised in semiannual crops.
It is interesting to note that this size was determined upon because it was found that the burlap covering such bales of this size would cut into sandbags with a minimum amount of waste material.
The method followed by Mr. Stoke of soaking for 5 minutes and keeping the sample in a wet burlap sack for 24 hours is all right but is cumbersome if many samples are to be tested.
Finally he got up, turned on the lights, took off his coat, found Sue's trunk behind the burlap screen and dragged it to the middle of the room.
The dining-room, with its green burlapand handsome furniture, was absolutely correct, and in the glow of the electric lights looked like fairy-land.
I shall get her a pretty cap, with yards of olive-green ribbon, to match the burlap on the dining-room wall.
Aunt Tryphosa, clapping her hands together as she opened the largest burlap bag; "if that boy ain't stuffed this two-bushel bag chock full of birch bark!
The moonlight filtered through the chinks in the burlap shrouding the deck.
While he was gone I raised the burlap skirt covering from the box.
Hiram scratched a match on theburlap covering and lit a cigarette.
The rickety kitchen chair had finally collapsed and was substituted by a box covered with a burlap bag, with some padding on the end for a cushion.
The visitor nodded; glanced sharply about the apartment, where the motorcycles were still lying, and then squatted on one of the burlap bags.
He disappeared into a corner shut off by burlap curtains.
This is Art Burlap and not the kind that they use for sacking Peanuts," explained the Disciple of Beauty.
One Day when the Provider struck the Premises he found the Workmen putting Red Burlap on the Walls of the Sitting-Room.
Above the Burlapwill be a Shelf of Weathered Oak, and then above that a Frieze of Blue Jimson Flowers.
As we approached the Yukon we passed several meat caches where great quarters of beef sewn up in burlap were piled on the side of the trail.
They had stripped the burlap from parts of several quarters, exposing the fat, and had dug out and carried it away little by little until it was all gone.
His black eyes snapped and his right hand made feeble motions toward the floor of the wagon where, on a pile of supplies and camp equipment, lay a burlap sack containing something lumpy and rough.
Pete nodded as well as he could and even tried to grin his satisfaction at being understood, waving a feeble hand again in the direction of the burlap sack.
Fruit and forest trees are both protected by a burlap band or a band of "sticky" fly-paper placed around the tree, to prevent insects from crawling up.
I was followed by Burlap and Cato, who got across safely, but were somewhat scratched by the driftwood.
I then put 20 to 25 pounds of nuts in a coarse mesh burlap bag.
This can be done by heading the trees low so that the branches shade the trunk, or by shading the south side of the trunk with a board 6 or 8 inches wide, or by wrapping the trunk with burlap or similar material.
He handed Russ Steele a burlap bag soaked in water.
Down at one end of the line, Dick tossed aside his smoking burlap sack and grabbed a shovel.
Well, you know them cut rate apartment houses, with a flossy reception room, all marble slabs and burlap panels and no elevator.
He was sittin' right alongside of that burlap bundle, waitin' to spring his tin badge on some one.
You'll see a bundle done up in burlap somewhere around the express office," says he, "a big bundle.
He squints at the burlap package, and then at the message, and all of a sudden he makes a break for the 'phone.
FOR THE PUPIL PAGE 14 burlap petticoat: a strip of burlap about six inches wide tied with a string and folded over about the trunks of the trees under which the night-feeding gypsy moth caterpillars hide by day.
It was carefully but quickly skinned and placed in the burlap bag for the specimens.
They had brought several large burlap bags, and the treasure was divided into these.
There are conspicuous displays of many ancient burlap bags, heavy laden, hanging from high rafters, which contained corn and peanuts.
She touched the burlapcurtain and peeked under it.
The air can get thru the burlap but it breaks the wind off of the dog and keeps the snow from blowing in on his nest, or rain if it is raining.
Put your burlap on the outside at the hole as before described, and you have a fine place for your dog.
Cut a hole that he can get thru easily and then tack some burlap just above the hole and let it hang down over the hole.
A burlap sack is folded several thicknesses and tacked on the top for a cushion.
Water with a gentle spray until entire mass of soil is saturated, cover top with old burlap or bagging and place pots or boxes in a secure place where the temperature will not vary greatly from sixty degrees.
For a small bed, a piece of burlap spread over it, and kept in position by a stone at each corner, is excellent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burlap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
