SHEET in a Sentence

Learn SHEET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

244 example sentences for SHEET, such as:

1. Better wear out shoes than sheets.
2. The sheets were aired on the line.
3. A sheet had been spread on the Terrace.
4. Grey sheets flapped on the clothes line.
5. Where the worm weaves its winding sheet.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHEET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sheet
 n.  bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece; any broad thin surface
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As the young hunter approached it, he perceived that a stick had been planted on it, with a sheet of paper stuck in the cleft fork of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  But the breeze blew the great sheet out; and over the edge he surveyed the landscape--flowing fields, heath and woods.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  One hand was deep stuck in her jacket pocket; the other held a foolscap sheet.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
4  She mumbled through the blurred carbon sheet.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
5  Some, like Colonel and Mrs. Mayhew, who had never left their seats, brooded over the blurred carbon sheet which had been issued for their information.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
6  A sheet had been spread on the Terrace.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
7  Rather prettily, real swallows darted across the sheet.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
8  Where the worm weaves its winding sheet.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  The press marked E was unlocked; and I took out the drawer, had it filled up with straw and tied in a sheet, and returned with it to Cavendish Square.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
10  "There it is, sir," said I, pointing to the drawer, where it lay on the floor behind a table and still covered with the sheet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
11  He turned a dreadful smile to me, and as if with the decision of despair, plucked away the sheet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
12  He took the old sheet and rubbed her down, she standing like a child.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  She ducked her head in the other end of the sheet, and rubbed her wet hair.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  Here he went to the bedside and folded back the sheet.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
15  Yeobright searched his desk, and taking out a sheet of tissue-paper unfolded from it two or three undulating locks of raven hair, which fell over the paper like black streams.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  Louis we had a big storm after midnight, with a power of thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in a solid sheet.
17  This fact sheet offers suggestions on how to develop good relationships with your banker and other lenders.
18  When you mess up with sheet metal, you have to scrap it and start over.
19  Each platelet is only a few millionths of a metre across, it consists of a sheet of stiff cellulose fibres; although the fibres are minute, they are strong.
20  The bed will be more comfortable if you smooth out the sheets.
21  Better wear out shoes than sheets.
22  The prisoner escaped from the prison by knotting the sheets together and climbing down them out to the window.
23  When the development bubble burst, federal regulators started probing the balance sheets of the biggest banks.
24  The floor was protected with overlapping sheets of newspaper.
25  The sheets fell on the gritty floor, and she just let them lie.
26  The sheets were aired on the line.
27  Grey sheets flapped on the clothes line.
28  Please strip the beds and put the sheets in the washing machine.
29  Please paste these coloured sheets of paper together.
30  I often quickly hold sheets together in my bag when a stapler isn't available or practical.