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Meanings of sisal in English
Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope.
Usage of sisal in English
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Or, he said, supermarkets might decide to hand out free sisal bags.
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He had also found wild sisal in the rocky places of the island.
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So he set about weaving a sail of his sisal fibre.
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A plastic gallon drum was buckling and melding to the sisal hall carpet.
5
The small man picked up the twenty-pound sisal bag resting in the corner.
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Scientists say cooking gas from sisal waste is more efficient and cheaper than charcoal.
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The walls were mud, our beds assemblages of sisal bags.
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The gun thumped on the sisal matting next to him.
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I was in the lower shelf, and I put a sisal bag around me.
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The floor was packed dirt covered by a sisal rug.
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They had almost reached the fence of acacia and sisal thorns that surrounded the camp.
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Bags made with plant fibre like sisal can help the slum battle its plastics problem, he said.
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That could help farmers increase their yields and further accelerate the take-up of sisal in the country.
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He had special hawsers for the job, stout sisal ropes he kept hidden away for the next opportunity.
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In the night, Achor Achor and I asked the elders for sisal bags, and were each given one.
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Besides, the thorn bushes were patches of spiky aloe coming into red flower, and the spears of sisal.
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