Examples of gunnysack in a Sentence
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Meat striped from their bones brings $9 a gunnysack to natives.
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Bob Brister, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
The bass angler tends to be competitive, the saltwater fisherman is always looking for the full gunnysack, or maybe that trophy marlin.
—Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
In 2007, the bodies of Manoj and Babli, lovers from the same village and the same gohtra—believed to be descendants of a common ancestor—were found in gunnysacks dumped in a canal not far from Kakheri.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 22 Dec. 2017
But instead of bagging his finds in bottles and gunnysacks, Venter is capturing their DNA on filter paper and shipping it to be sequenced and analyzed at his headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.
—James Shreeve, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2004
Bob Brister, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
The bass angler tends to be competitive, the saltwater fisherman is always looking for the full gunnysack, or maybe that trophy marlin.
—Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
In 2007, the bodies of Manoj and Babli, lovers from the same village and the same gohtra—believed to be descendants of a common ancestor—were found in gunnysacks dumped in a canal not far from Kakheri.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 22 Dec. 2017
But instead of bagging his finds in bottles and gunnysacks, Venter is capturing their DNA on filter paper and shipping it to be sequenced and analyzed at his headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.
—James Shreeve, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2004
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Word History
Etymology
gunny coarse fabric, of Indo-Aryan origin; akin to Hindi gon sack, Punjabi gūṇī
First Known Use
1799, in the meaning defined above
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“Gunnysack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunnysack. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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gunnysack
noun
gun·ny·sack
-ˌsak 
: a sack made of a coarse heavy fabric (as burlap)
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