sackcloth in the PONS Dictionary

sackcloth Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be wearing sackcloth and ashes
разкайвам се дълбоко
do penance in sackcloth and ashes
посипвам си главата с пепел (разкайвам се)

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His harrow apparently caught on sackcloth.
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They proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.
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The image of sackcloth and ashes may not be far from our minds.
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Each door had a rectangular panel cut out of it, covered with sackcloth.
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During his lifetime use sackcloth and iron chains on the body to do penance.
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Perhaps, but before they don sackcloth and ashes they might want to consider that this election as much as anything else was a candidate failure.
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They constructed a globe-shaped balloon of sackcloth with three thin layers of paper inside.
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Often he rolled in the snow and wore sackcloth under his clothing to mortify his flesh, in the way of hidden tzaddikim.
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From this point forward he is always seen traveling with his entire household, begging on the streets, and dressed in sackcloth.
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Clothe yourselves in sackcloth, but also cover yourselves with your impenetrable bucklers.
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