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    sheet


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    sheeting


    sheets


    1. They had already kicked the noon sheet off


    2. Hair also takes too long to compost within 60 days and therefore should be used in the sheet method described later


    3. defined by the contours and ripples of a thin white sheet


    4. Now every bank manager and school mistress has to show off their flash sheet designer tattoo at the beach or the company picnic


    5. I zink he is the full-blooded sheet


    6. instead of one single repetitive operation on a large sheet we could punch out smaller


    7. under the weight of its own floral winding sheet, using vegetation as a shield against


    8. She writes down the address as I read it from the sheet of headed paper which Stephen chased after me with as I was reversing round his car


    9. twisted round him like a winding sheet


    10. little tears of blood onto the sheet

    11. Khalid studies a spread sheet in the seat behind Russ and John sits gripping the seat armrests, beads of sweat on his forehead


    12. I felt rough fibres catching at the corners of my mouth as though I were being force fed a winding sheet, and then, as stars started to explode across my eyelids, I realised with a flood of relief that my head and shoulders were still covered by the sacking


    13. Using Fred’s suggestion, we are packing the barrel with damp sand to hold the tree upright and in the hope that the dampness will stop it dropping quite as fast as they generally do; this, naturally, means we need a sheet of plastic to protect the floor … oh it just gets more complicated by the second! But between us we get it all sorted out


    14. Johnny slowly pulled back the sheet


    15. He saw there three fresh wounds, just scabbing over but still seeping little tears of blood onto the sheet


    16. ’ Iain said as she folded the sheet and stowed it in her bag


    17. Without comment, he pushed across a sheet of paper for her to write on; she waited while he dug in one of the drawers for a pen that worked


    18. Between the two of them, they manoeuvred her between the covers, Angie fussing over straightening the sheet and patting the pillows


    19. Picking up the envelope, she quickly extracted the sheet inside and read it; it was dated twelve years previously … how odd


    20. The path ahead blocked not by wet ground but by a large sheet of lon-covered water, a lake nearly a mile across

    21. of sheet metal, folded and stamped into the basic flow


    22. Around the corner from a large plastic cash-register of a restaurant called 'Neon', I saw a little boy propped against the wall of a bank and sitting on an old sheet next to a tin box containing a few coins


    23. He pulls this sheet off her body,


    24. Through my eyelashes I watched him lift a paw and dab my chin then when I groaned he made a tactical retreat across my body to the safety of the folded sheet


    25. She had Ash and Lady Ariel stretch a large white sheet of canvas tenting across the mountains between the ridge and the Riders Hall


    26. Take a clean sheet of paper and write out everything that is bothering you


    27. ‘I’ve got the information sheet upstairs


    28. ’ I said, suiting the action to the word, carefully opening the envelope with my letter opener and prising out the sheet of paper with the pointed end of the implement, touching it as little as possible with my fingers


    29. As I start unfolding the sheet using a pen in one hand and the letter opener in the other, it becomes obvious that this is another like yesterday


    30. Before I can actually read the words, Jim covers the sheet, ‘No need to read it, Jo

    31. There was a sheet of papyrus and an inkwell with a reed pen in it


    32. Helen carefully wipes the serving spoon that she has been using to blend the various ingredients of the good doctor's happy cake mix on a sheet of kitchen roll


    33. Ignoring him, her eyes travelled on to where Mickey was sitting, his head close to Kev’s as they pored over a sheet of paper on the table


    34. In another corner of the sheet was a doodle of a dress cut so low that both cheeks and both breasts were exposed, yet it had a long train that trailed across the floor behind, but was open beyond the crotch in front


    35. There was a note on the sheet in different handwriting, very tiny writing that was hard to make out


    36. She floundered on the sheet, her face buried as her balance went


    37. A ray of sunlight spotlighted the unmade bed, the bedding lying crumpled, the sheet pulled down in one corner, revealing the mattress: the pillow dented where his head had lain while he waited for the time to pass


    38. They were poring, heads together, over a large sheet of paper


    39. “The Gnomes will have that info, the ‘on site’ sheet for that shift,” he stood up


    40. They’d wrapped her in a sheet to bury her

    41. The few residents of the nearby floors all have copper deposited with him so they just mark a sheet and bring back the empties once in awhile


    42. Again, Chrissie tenses as her stomach revolts to the sound of his voice, her knuckles white, gripping on the sheet of the bed in which she is lying, she fights for control


    43. Since it was closer than her cubby, Ava had no excuse not to go up and see Kulai just to be sure he couldn’t remember why he was two weeks late with that boat sheet and see if she could find out anything about Enjteen’s suspicions


    44. “My habit was to turn in the boat sheet, along with all the other shift logs, on my way home every single shift I stand


    45. “It’s shit on the table now,” she said, not forgiving him, but not wanting conflict since she wanted his cooperation on the boat sheet issue


    46. I ask him what he wants me to say about his pieces but he pre-empts me by handing me a crib sheet on which he has written all the salient information


    47. He smiles again, picks up the sheet of paper his printer’s just produced, and passes it to me with a pen


    48. ’ Sally said, scrawling on the marking sheet


    49. agent what he had copied to another sheet of paper


    50. “If I remember to take my notes,” he reached over to where Hyondahi had put the sheet














































    1. cloud had somehow sheeted over since the last time I’d looked up


    2. She grabbed the doorknob, then wiped at the sheeted tears on


    3. With sunshine sheeted icicles from the


    4. A bright white light sheeted her


    5. Elizabeth, following her lead, sheeted both her sword and her throwing knife


    6. They also appeared to wear wide belts with pouches and possibly sheeted knives


    7. Each Balor was seemingly sheeted in flames and held both a great sword and a whip


    8. The two laborers’ laughing however strangled quickly when the biggest of the men in armor gave them a less than friendly stare while pushing away a part of his cape and uncovering a kind of short sword sheeted at his side


    9. On second thought, she sheeted back her swords before the enemy could fall on her: if a quick retreat was called, she would need those swords on her


    10. The latter ones, sheeted in soft leather holsters by the sides of her belt and with their butts sticking out, attracted his attention

    11. All of the Zoarinian cavalry sheeted off to form a long line facing General Nadero’s cavalry that had drawn up in the sands of the western shore and was now busy forming their own line


    12. Kregridor’s head came back out of the water, as he climbed back up onto his island as water from his recent dive sheeted off the platelets of his heavy scale armor


    13. It was the largest of the tannin and Talaric heard Ellanara say, “Kregridor!” The heavy caliber rounds of the enemy craft smashed into the heavy back plate armor of the tannin and sheeted off it in a lead rain to either side


    14. I sat on the throne, as the water sheeted out around it and gushed down the steps carrying away Heinrich’s henchmen


    15. Water sheeted off everywhere and I gasped for air for a few brief moments before making my way below decks for the open scuttle cocks near the rudder even as Jim went for the one at the forward prow


    16. former Secretary who has since been charge sheeted, admitted that there was no syn-


    17. The vast mind was sheeted with stone; and each compartment in the depths of it was safe and dry


    18. " Sancho laboured in vain, for his master was so bent on coming to quarters with these sheeted figures and releasing the lady in black that he did not hear a word; and even had he heard, he would not have turned back if the king had ordered him


    19. The sheeted mirror


    20. A floor-to-ceiling waterfall sheeted down a copper wall behind him

    21. He was weightless, tumbling off the bed and slamming into the wall, and he had to bite back a scream as pain sheeted through him


    22. Of the three men remaining around the sheeted form there were Carlson, who had been at this sort of thing for thirty years, and Moreno, who had been at it for ten, and Latting, who was new to the job a few weeks back


    23. Charley Coffin said it was used for an ice-piercer; for the Narwhale, rising to the surface of the Polar Sea, and finding it sheeted with ice, thrusts his horn up, and so breaks through


    24. Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness


    25. He commanded the upper sails to be well hoisted, sheeted home anew, and every way expanded to the breeze


    26. On their arrival, which was about 12 o'clock, I discovered that they had only twenty pistols, and neither cutlasses nor battle axes; but on application to Generals Smyth and Hall, of the regulars and militia, I was supplied with a few arms, and General Smyth was so good, on my request, as immediately to detach fifty men from the regulars, armed with muskets; by four o'clock, in the afternoon, I had my men selected and stationed in two boats which I had previously prepared for the purpose; with those boats, fifty men in each, and under circumstances very disadvantageous, my men having had scarcely time to refresh themselves, after a fatiguing march of five hundred miles, I put off from the mouth of Buffalo creek, at one o'clock the following morning; and at three I was alongside the vessels; in about ten minutes I had the prisoners all secured, the topsails sheeted home, and the vessels under way; unfortunately the wind was not sufficiently strong to get me up against a rapid current into the lake, where I understood another armed vessel lay at anchor, and I was obliged to run down the river by the forts, under a heavy fire of round, grape, and canister, from a number of pieces of heavy ordnance, and several pieces of flying artillery; was compelled to anchor at a distance of about four hundred yards from two of their batteries


    1. covered with a thin fuzzy fabric and the thermal sheeting inside


    2. Blue plastic sheeting was blown buy fans to represent the ripples on a lake


    3. Armed with a staple gun and plastic sheeting, Travis and Curran spent an hour patching up


    4. “Plastic sheeting and tape - we have some in the storage areas


    5. He’d watched as Sir Richard’s team brought plastic sheeting to the rockfall and proceeded to seal off the tunnel


    6. Clear polythene sheeting stapled to a large timber framework formed a room inside the building, to house the equipment


    7. Bare that is, except for a sturdy metal chair fixed to the floor, in the center of polythene sheeting pooled with blood


    8. Junmi, after putting the pistols in her belt and sheeting back the Portuguese sword, was then taken in charge by the retainer in charge of the castle’s guard force, who took her away towards the women’s quarters


    9. provisional set-up, with canvas sheeting and tents everywhere


    10. Groaning, he became aware that his shirt was gone, his chest bound tightly with cotton sheeting

    11. sheeting were torn and brought to the room


    12. made it a plastic dress out of some old sheeting I found in


    13. Can't see! Who's behind me? Out quickly, quickly! Do you see the tide flowing quickly in on all sides, sheeting the lows of sand quickly, shellcocoacoloured? If I had land under my feet


    14. Claire had seen thousands of diagrams of residential walls: the siding on the exterior, the thin wood sheeting for strength, the thick layer of insulation tucked between the wooden studs, the Sheetrock


    15. They rose in an incredible pillar of smoke—and no doubt steam—on tails of flame that sent more smoke sheeting across the sky in a smothering canopy


    16. Some water has collected in the sagging underbelly of the plastic sheeting stapled there


    17. All this Richard took in through the sheer plastic sheeting hung from a bodega awning on the corner of Tenth Avenue to protect the flowers underneath


    18. Tears were sheeting down my face, but I wasn’t sobbing


    19. One more piece of the puzzle, I thought, and considered what I’d been able to dig up after moving the last of the kitchen into boxes and the basement and watching the horror in my grandmother’s face when Billy DuPris entered the house with crowbars and rolls of plastic sheeting


    20. She made a puffing noise but then shrugged and nodded before gesturing at the plastic sheeting the contractors had put up to seal off the construction site

    21. Visqueen sheeting had been wrapped and stapled all around the perimeter


    22. In seconds he found the plastic sheeting that separated the construction space from the rest of the house


    23. He paused to close the Velcro strips, then got out the pistol and headed toward the slit he’d cut in the plastic sheeting that surrounded the new addition


    24. But when he got around the side, the plastic sheeting was gone


    25. Through the plastic sheeting that sealed off the construction site, he watched Cross’s wife enter the dining area, moving stiffly, her face bandaged


    26. Whole streets of houses were empty, with gleaming plastic front yards and plastic sheeting that flapped in the wind


    27. All were two stories, constructed primarily of local timber and metal sheeting


    1. Dad waves a hand dismissively, pulling the sheets up to his mouth and coughing mucus into them


    2. I was in the front room ironing some sheets and watching an American detective show on TV


    3. John lies on his back resting with his eyes open, the sheets covering his body up to his waist


    4. He rubs his face, gets slowly out of bed, goes and sits in a chair near the bed, staring at Clarisse, naked, dark and beautiful, the sheets wrapped about her body in a haphazard way


    5. Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby


    6. While sat on the loo, I had dozed gently before the realisation that the loo roll only had two sheets of paper left stirred what was left of my brain into action


    7. mattress was far too soft and the sheets somewhat threadbare, Johnny soon dropped


    8. he raised the threadbare sheets up around his neck, and then sat up


    9. He just lies there, crumpled in his bed and tears begin to fall on the sheets as he cries


    10. He looks to the bed, and notices a mass buried underneath the sheets

    11. Kara folded the precious sheets and stowed them in her bag before replying


    12. Only the lightning flashes let one see the river, the lantern couldn't penetrate the sheets of rain


    13. and they shift the tangled sheets from around


    14. horizontal sheets of rain that the path


    15. Truth is you play the sheets at night,


    16. from the itch and scratch of bare bulbs, dirty bed sheets


    17. touching the ribbed sheets of canvas as he expelled air


    18. your hands forcing my arms into the soft yield of cotton sheets,


    19. towards plastic sheets and hand outs,


    20. in a bed that still has top sheets

    21. of sheets from what was once her marriage bed


    22. Then they got Kate and Daniel and flew to the town and loaded up on cots and beds, and all the sheets, blankets, pillows, rugs, and other stuff they thought that the students might need


    23. I chose the bed nearest the French windows and lay down bathed in the cool of the sheets


    24. When her husband returned home after another hard day performing for London’s musical cognoscenti he found the poor girl buried up to her armpits in smudged sheets of thin cardboard


    25. Nevertheless, for those who could follow it, he had to go thru it, show the quantum balance sheets, the entanglement teleportation pathways and all the details his work was based on


    26. A blinding electric crack split the moody sky and in that instant, sheets of torrential rain hammered down upon the Kaliantikos without a pause


    27. I passed out sheets that estimated the school's monthly needs based on eight


    28. read out the names that were printed on the A4 sheets of paper


    29. Hey, didn’t I see an ad for silk sheets somewhere in that heap of newspapers? That would be something out of the ordinary, and nice too


    30. the poor girl buried up to her armpits in smudged sheets of thin

    31. I went to the bed and shook the sheets and comforter and suddenly the monster leapt on the bed and growled


    32. She removed her clothing and lay down on the cool sheets


    33. as I look through the sheets, I notice a pattern of monthly amounts which seem to come in from six different sources


    34. He’ll make tents in the sheets for a week


    35. A bundle of folded sheets of A4 lined paper turns up in the file for 1994 … I open them out and flatten them


    36. Belle reorganized the office in the hardware store to do double duty for the 'Lodge Office,' and with Harry, she set up the necessary account ledgers and booking sheets


    37. Most of it is used clothing, books, small audio devices with dead chips, sticky pieces of candy on playing cards, gummed up erasers and out-of-date crib sheets


    38. Then, three sheets to the wind, he would try and return to


    39. He and his father went over to where the girls still sat, took the forks from their hands, lifted them into their arms and carried them to bed, tucking them gently in under the sheets and quilts


    40. Billy had brought not only the brushes, but also dust sheets to cover the floor and protect it against paint spills

    41. Surely Chrissie would have removed the sheets – they’d brought those with them


    42. “As it should be,” Althart said, “But look here, you were transferred on K’shitn, but this wasn’t entered to the files til Kyebenwae, does Kulai usually take that long?” he was looking at some of the other crew sheets nearby in the piles he had made, they were all filed in the same week


    43. In Employment Dormant Records they should be able to dig up the time sheets for these people on that day, you can see the dates on that, if something was made up later, those might be later dates also


    44. The rain was coming down in sheets now, but instead of the crowd leaving,


    45. All Harry focused upon beyond that, 'Begin,' was each question in turn, and the sound of his own pencil on the test sheets


    46. His sheets were


    47. " he answered without looking back, but instead picked up the dusty sheets removed from the windows the day before, turning he tossed all but one on the floor, in front of the fire place


    48. Matt stood up to let his Father change the sheets


    49. against his will, clenching the bed sheets in his hands


    50. He walked over to the wild sheets on his bed and looked down to













































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    Synonyms for "sheet"

    canvas canvass sail sheet bed sheet mainsheet shroud tack weather sheet flat solid piece of paper sheet of paper rag tabloid plane layer covering coat mantle leaf thickness ply film bed linen cloth

    "sheet" definitions

    any broad thin expanse or surface


    paper used for writing or printing


    bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs


    (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape


    newspaper with half-size pages


    a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width


    (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind


    a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel


    come down as if in sheets


    cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping