How To Use Sackcloth and ashes In A Sentence

But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio. Archive 2007-07-01
Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.
What would be the point of covering myself in sackcloth and ashes? The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)
In those days, people walked around in sackcloth and ashes, when they were in mourning, fasting, or in a state of repentance. Sackcloth and Ashes
There was no gratitude for any so-called leniency of the North, no repentance for the war, no desire for humiliation, for sackcloth and ashes, and no confession of wrong. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states

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Grandpa: We were so poor then, we lived in sackcloth and ashes. Harold Pinter, eat your heart out.
Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they are continuing their work of expiation. Gueranger: The Mystery of Passiontide and Holy Week
They way he tells it you'd think we were all of us permanently roaming about the land in sackcloth and ashes, wailing and mithering.