Sentence examples for gunny from inspiring English sources

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gunny

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A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.

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Mr. T. ordered that the gunny sack be examined before operations began.

He became suspicious when the snake charmer was consistently able to lure large, lethal-looking snakes out of the shrubbery and into a gunny sack which he had brought for the purpose.

"I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper," Mr. Buss told The Boston Globe in 1987.

It was this sort of gunny sack material.

John Aquilino, a former N.R.A. director of public education, said, "Wayne is not a gunny, he's not ex-military, he's not a hunter, he's not a trapper".

In the mid-19th century, the majority of the Yucatán's rich forests were felled to make way for sisal plantations, a crop that produced fibre for gunny sacks.

So I was searching for a survivor, and one day I read in the newspaper that a girl had been shot and put in a gunny bag and thrown in a river, and survived, and was in a hospital.

And while the biggest console games have become increasingly "adult" and "serious" (read: beardy and gunny), Mario's stuck to a stupendously successful, primary-coloured mix of perfectly crafted platforming.

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Mercedes sedans and Ford F150 pickups disgorged men carrying vinyl zip-bags and gunny-sacks full of "throws," the beads and balls and gee-gaws that float riders hurl at the clamoring crowds.

The gunnies are right that some criminals and crazies will still have guns, and school massacres may still happen.

"There's this 50-year rule that's often invoked," said Gunny Harboe, a preservation architect, who recently renovated the Carson Pirie Scott building in the Loop.

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