winding sheet
Example Sentences
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In the kitchen of their lovely shop, Talbott and Arding Cheese and Provisions, we undid its winding sheet.
From New York Times
The scrivener’s pale form appeared to me laid out, among uncaring strangers, in its shivering winding sheet.
From Slate
I dreamed that the fighters were rolling my body in a winding sheet and lashing my ankles together with golden straw.
From New York Times
In the days after this dream, I thought, I have seen the winding sheet, so I must be quite far along in the killing process.
From New York Times
Thus the comparison of a nautical sheet to a winding sheet does not correspond.
From Slate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
