groundsheet

Example Sentences

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Today there was nothing but a square of soggy cardboard, apparently used as someone’s groundsheet, and the jacket of the golfing guide “Putting: The Game Within the Game.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 8, 2016

A quinzee is a kind of igloo, built by piling snow on to rucksacks covered by a groundsheet.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2016

I pitched my tent on some runs and while I was packing it away, they were running underneath the groundsheet and hiding.

From BBC • May 12, 2011

Then spread out a groundsheet of canvas, plastic, or spare clothing.

From Time Magazine Archive

We cleared a space on a groundsheet and pooled our commissary.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson