Examples of “jute” in a Sentence

noun A coarse, strong fiber from certain plants of the East Indies, used to make items such as mats, paper and sacking.

• The shop sells doormats woven from jute.
• Jute is strong and rough to the touch.
• She carried her shopping home in a jute bag.

noun One of the plants that this fiber is obtained from.

• The jute was cut and left to dry.
• Fields of jute stretched along the river.