8 sentences with 'sack'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sack and other words derived from it.
• « After attaching a sack to the entrance of the trap, the expert opens the door, drops the animal into the sack and holds it by the scruff of the neck through the cloth. »
• « Soon after, a Babylonian king, Nabopolassar, led a rebellion that eventually led to the sack of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. »
• « The sack of Corinth specifically also aroused great interest in Greek art among the Roman elite, spurring the development of Greco-Roman artistic traditions in Italy. »
• « The Roman government officially moved to the city of Ravenna in the north (which was more defensible) after this sack of Rome. »
• « The impregnability of Rome was itself one of the founding stories the Romans told themselves; the Romans had long sworn that the Celtic sack of 387 BC would be their last, and yet the Goths had shattered that myth. »
• « There, the Pope (Leo I) personally appealed to Attila not to sack the city of Rome and paid them a large bribe. »
• « First, Constantinople itself played an important role in the power and wealth of the east. While Rome had steadily declined over the years, especially after its sack in 410 and the transfer of the western imperial government to the Italian city of Ravenna (which was more easily defensible), Constantinople had around 500,000 residents. »
• « As he filled his can with water from an icy puddle, he noticed a sack hidden among the stones. He untied it and saw that inside was a human leg the colour of a rotting vegetable. »