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Definition of Sacklike
1. resembling a sack [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacklike
Literary usage of Sacklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"sacklike prominences penicillate, extending beyond the base of the sinuses and
two thirds as long as the limb. Obs. 6387. Specimen gathered in Saville's ..."
2. Giotto and Some of His Followers by Osvald Sirén (1917)
"There are several onlookers besides Anna and Joseph: two kneeling women and two
bearded men, whose vast, sacklike shapes bear witness to an effort not ..."
3. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"The men's clothing of unsewn skins and rough buffalo-hide sandals, the women's
sacklike garments of wool, the low houses of rough stone, sunk on three sides ..."
4. A Commentary on the New Testament by Bernhard Weiss, George Henry Schodde, Epiphanius Wilson (1906)
"For if the opulent cities of Tyre and Sidon had received such an incentive to
repent, they would long ago have wrapped themselves in the sacklike garments ..."
5. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"sacklike prominences penicillate, extending beyond the base of the sinuses and
two thirds as long as the limb. Obs. 6387. Specimen gathered in Saville's ..."
6. Giotto and Some of His Followers by Osvald Sirén (1917)
"There are several onlookers besides Anna and Joseph: two kneeling women and two
bearded men, whose vast, sacklike shapes bear witness to an effort not ..."
7. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"The men's clothing of unsewn skins and rough buffalo-hide sandals, the women's
sacklike garments of wool, the low houses of rough stone, sunk on three sides ..."
8. A Commentary on the New Testament by Bernhard Weiss, George Henry Schodde, Epiphanius Wilson (1906)
"For if the opulent cities of Tyre and Sidon had received such an incentive to
repent, they would long ago have wrapped themselves in the sacklike garments ..."
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