How to Use sac in a Sentence

sac

noun
  • Harris then hit a sac-fly to take the lead.
    — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Not the mantle, which is the big sac, but in front where her eyes are.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff?
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In the morning, the sac was even bigger.
    — Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes the body doesn't pass the sac and all of the tissue.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Sometimes the body doesn't pass the sac and all of the tissue.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This is shirako, the sperm sacs of cod, soft and milky as oysters.
    — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Egg and egg sac baits are ideal for drifting in streams, large and small.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The next day, my whole hand was slightly swollen, and the sac looked bigger.
    — Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • On the biggest lot, he soon got stuck in a futile cul-de-sac of trucks.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • In Kristin's case, two of her embryos shared a sac, while the third was in its own.
    — Susan Young, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • Or, donuts, coconuts, cocktail sauce, and cod milt (that is, the fish’s sperm sac)?
    — Talib Visram, Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • This shows that a female lagonomegopid spider guarded her egg sac from harm.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Most fish have a swim bladder, or a sac of air inside its body to keep buoyant.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Arroyo gets the bunt down and the Sox won the clincher with a walkoff sac fly.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Still, Reyes advanced to third, and then scored on a sac fly by Haase.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Their bellies are cream-white, their pectoral glands white and their vocal sacs black.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The house is on a cul-de-sac in North Shores, just north of the beach resort.
    — Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
  • For years sabermetrics has said the sac-bunt is not a good strategy.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 16 July 2022
  • The ultrasound showed that there was a sac filled with fluid on the baby’s neck.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The spider was in the process of stretching out silk from its spinnerets to weave into its egg sac.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The sac around her heart twice filled with blood, causing cardiac arrests as doctors raced to drain it.
    — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Narula said the blood in the sac around the heart an indication that the artery wall had ruptured.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Remove their webbing and destroy egg sacs often.
    — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Early on, scans revealed trouble with the survival and health of the mono twins sharing the sac.
    — Susan Young, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • Johnson then sac-bunted to advance the runners.
    — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Musk is obtained from the musk pod, a preputial gland in a pouch, or sac, under the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Niko Brini followed with a sac fly to left field for the 2-0 cushion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
  • The car rolled down the driveway and into the cul-de-sac before Michael jumped into the car to stop it.
    — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The proteins are formed and then stored in a sac in the form of liquid globules surrounded by water.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022

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