How to Use sackcloth in a Sentence

sackcloth

noun

• Image Once there was a man who wore the finest silks in Italy, but traded them all for sackcloth.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• One of the dancers has a suppurating wound wrapped in sackcloth.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2018
• And there will still be someone who feels a need to leave a comment saying that the sackcloth is decadent.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2018
• Go sit in sackcloth and ashes or whatever and look within.
  — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
• As this new Apple clip a year later indicates, sackcloth and ashes about U2 are still no longer his thing.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Dodgers have been on a pretty good hot streak the last couple of weeks, but that doesn’t stop some fans from gnashing their teeth and wearing sackcloth and ashes after each loss.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• The donning of sackcloth and ashes for this once-mighty art form is an annual ritual.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2016
• The mask had been the most joylessly visible way of signaling one’s virtue since sackcloth and ashes.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• Like in medieval times when people wore sackcloth and ashes, the ash mark is a call to repentance and preparation in the season leading up to Easter, which will be on April 16 for Christians around the world.
  — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Aesthetic moms, the memes say, ignore their kid’s request for a Paw Patrol cake and instead opt for an uniced bake featuring twigs, leaves, and sackcloth banners.
  — Amelia Tait, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
• The ashes also represent penance — sackcloth and ashes.
  — The Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Activists cloaked in sackcloth marched outside the parking lots.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
• While sackcloths have fallen out of use, the meaning of wearing ashes on Ash Wednesday has stayed the same.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024