He was so fastidious and prim about his place that a boy would go to a good deal of trouble to throw a dead cat into his back yard, or to dump a sackful of tin cans in his alley.
She obeyed, but the man who owed her the gold deceived her by giving her a sackful of earth.
Evil folk there are--crows and corpse-devouring vultures--who would as readily denounce us to the Emperor for half a sackful of coal as for half a sackful of florins.
What a prodigious sackful of good resolutions you must have, all broken through the middle .
What a prodigious sackful of good resolutions you must have, all broken through the middle.
For all that," quoth the housekeeper, "thou comest not within these doors, thou bundle of wickedness andsackful of roguery!
He flung down the shutter that served as a window, and poured about a sackful of snow down our necks.
A story very like this occurs in A Sackful of Newes, 1673.
While she and Benjamin were talking, close under the wall, they heard a heavy tread above their heads; and suddenly Mr. McGregor emptied out a sackful of lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies!
But as to a nest--there is no difficulty: I have a sackful of feathers in my woodshed.
He no doubt had been taught by the presbytery to mock religious rites; and when desired to give God thanks for his meat, he said, "Take a sackful of prayers to the mill and grind them, and take your breakfast of them.
There could not have been a sackful of sound firewood in all that heap of lumber!
If a sackful of red-shelled nuts were spilt on the crown of his head, not one of them would fall on the floor, but remain on the hooks and plaits and swordlets of their hair.
Though a sackful of wild apples were flung on his crown, not an apple would fall on the ground, but each of them would stick on his hair.
WHILE she and Benjamin were talking, close under the wall, they heard a heavy tread above their heads; and suddenly Mr. McGregor emptied out a sackful of lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies!
BUT as to a nest--there is no difficulty: I have a sackful of feathers in my wood- shed.
The gritty cinders will irritate the lips and tongue, will dry up the moisture of the mouth, will interfere with the breathing, and there will be no nourishment in a sackful of them.
But if you try to nourish yourselves on it alone, then, as I said, a sackful of such ashes will not stay your appetite.
The man at the village shop said he would put me up, so I took off my knapsack and sat down on a sackful of cattle cake while the bacon was cooking.
And the interminable question of caste, banning many things to Cingalese and Tamil, inhibits not the right to gamble upon the contents of a sackful of bivalves.
Then you must come out and help me in with a sackful of money,' said the man.
The troll then gave the old man a sackful of money, and laden with this he betook himself homewards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sackful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
