bedsheet

Example Sentences

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In even a light breeze the polyester billows, like a bedsheet on a clothesline, providing enough shade for a family.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

He said sometimes bodies were left on gurneys in the hallways outside of the morgue covered with nothing more than a bedsheet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025

“First, it should surprise no one that there was DNA on the bedsheet that matched the DNA inside Ms. Nickens,” wrote Sara G. Vanore, an assistant district attorney in Delaware County, Pa.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

On the front of the first minibus, a bedsheet was placed, with a message to the militias written on it: there are children on board.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2023

Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood