sack

Definition:
1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
2. An enclosed space.
3. To dismiss somebody from a job.
4. Terminate the employment of.

Use 'sack' in a sentence:

• 1. Young children were trying to scrape up some of the rice that spilled from the sacks.
• 2. As soon as the man in the sack saw him passing under the tree, he cried out, "Good morning!"
• 3. A bird had pecked a hole in the sack.
• 4. Speculation is rife that he will be sacked.
• 5. An empty sack can't stand up.
• 6. He either resigned or was sacked, depending on who you talk to.
• 7. With a mighty heave he lifted the sack onto the truck.
• 8. His brother has got the sack.
• 9. He wants the power to sack incompetent teachers.
• 10. The student let him down, opened the sack, and set him free.
• 11. Don't stuff the sack too full or it'll burst.
• 12. Lately, the president has been sacking and picking new ministers at whim.
• 13. After breakfast we'll take the empties down in the sack.
• 14. Alistair had carefully folded up the paper and stowed it away under the sacks.
• 15. Sacks were being loaded onto the truck.
• 16. If the muscle's contract, then the sack expands, and you can see the colors.
• 17. In falling, he made as much noise as a sack of wood falling from the fifth story of a house.
• 18. We've just sacked one lot of builders.
• 19. This sack of potatoes weighs a hundred jin at most.
• 20. A man could be seen walking up with a large sack on his shoulders.
• 21. Honour and profit lie not sack.
• 22. She is said to be very bitter about the way she was sacked.
• 23. He caught them in the sack together.
• 24. They would be sacked for criminal or scandalous behaviour.
• 25. I hope I can get Bobby back in this sack. He's starting to swell and come apart on me.
• 26. In 1527 Imperial troops sacked the French ambassador's residence in Rome.
• 27. Father put the cupboard under the wagon-seat, and in front of it and he laid a sack of corn for the horses.
• 28. Rome was sacked by the Goths in 410.
• 29. She was sacked for demanding Saturdays off.
• 30. These problems came to a head in September when five of the station's journalists were sacked.
• 31. This sack of rice was destroyed [bit] by rats and insects.
• 32. The government agreed not to sack any of the striking workers.
• 33. A number of churches were sacked and sacrilegious acts committed.
• 34. If the muscles are relaxed, the sack shrinks, and all you see is a little white point.
• 35. He shielded his head from the sun with an old sack.
• 36. The sack of wheat has spilled.
• 37. Four hundred workers face the sack.
• 38. Science teacher James Wood was sacked for slapping a schoolboy.
• 39. How would you like the sack because someone didn't like the way you looked or sounded?
• 40. He pre-empted any decision to sack him.
• 41. Francis bundled up her clothes again into their small sack.
• 42. Other industries have had to sack managers to reduce administrative costs.
• 43. The sack is too heavy to lift—you'll have to drag it.
• 44. The sack is too heavy to lift ─ you'll have to drag it.
• 45. He got the sack for swearing.
• 46. After a further four-month extension of her probation period, she was sacked.
• 47. Thieves ransacked the office, taking a sack of loose change.
• 48. The poor old sod got the sack yesterday.
• 49. Her work was so poor that she was given the sack.
• 50. They got through a sack of potatoes.