sackcloth and ashes उदाहरण वाक्य

He said he had spent his life serving " humanism and anti-fascism, " and felt " no need to dress myself in sackcloth and ashes ."
"If this has been a year of moonlight and roses, " he wrote recently, " next year I expect is going to be sackcloth and ashes.
Charlie Davidson at the Andover Shop in Cambridge, Mass ., had told me the same thing, although confessing that he was out of sackcloth and ashes.
It just happens that in this version, Job wears leather instead of sackcloth and ashes; also, he seems to be caught up in some kind of creepy vampire movie.
Rather than dressing her in sackcloth and ashes, she " may meet us friendly and smiling, as long as the smile is chaste and the dress is white ".

Woe to you, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
The prophet Daniel recounted pleading to God : " I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes " ( Daniel 9 : 3 ).
For those crepe hangers who thought today would be a day of sackcloth and ashes, I would just say today is the day when we began to move ahead in California,
In the age of instant mass communication and lawsuits, sackcloth and ashes have become the uniform of the day for corporate officials trying to live down a product safety or service fiasco.
"Look, if we went in with sackcloth and ashes and fired the whole White House staff, " the president told his press secretary, " that isn't going to satisfy these goddamn cannibals.