bedsheet
Americannoun
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bedsheets
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Origin of bedsheet
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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
As her mother walked out of the house, Songmi curled under her bedsheet and cried.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
“What’s this ?” cried out McWatt, late in the afternoon, as Milo handed him half his bedsheet.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
According to the Hisbah, the support package a couple receives includes essential household items needed to establish a new home: beds, mattresses, bedsheets, pillows, furniture and food supplies.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The pressure to make precisely the right choice — or else — is what’s gotten society’s bedsheets in a twist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bedsheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
It’s 11:47 p.m., and Sarah is changing her father’s bedsheets for the second time in one night.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025
The refugee workers have Meng fill out many papers before sending us off to the camp’s church, where we are given clean clothes, bedsheets, and food.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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