Sentence examples for sacks of cement from inspiring English sources

The ship's manifest said it was carrying 40,000 sacks of cement, an official said.

Men totter over it in single file under sacks of cement, crates of tinned food and baskets of chickens.

But a search found 20 containers, each about 20 feet by 40 feet, that were covered with sacks of cement.

German building workers stick rigidly to their craft skills; a carpenter is not supposed to lug sacks of cement, and the electrician will not help the plumber.

"Inmates carried piles of sand in their uniforms," Wachsmann writes, while others "moved large mounds of earth on rickety wooden stretchers or shifted sacks of cement on their shoulders".

In "The Psychiatric Unit," Tate suggests we're all in one, all the time; in "Cement," the human predicament is redrawn slightly, its speaker a man condemned, like a soul in Tartarus, to carry "hundred-pound sacks of cement all day".

"Who wants a sack of cement?

When Israel controls every sack of cement that is coming in?

She felt as if a sack of cement had been poured into her and quickly hardened.

Each 50kg sack of cement sells for around $9, of which almost $6 is profit.The business has turned the firm's founder and majority shareholder, Aliko Dangote, into the richest man in Africa, with a fortune of $25 billion.

This Nage is super compact and dense, like a sack of cement.