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
You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between bed and toilet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 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
Officers noticed a gas smell so called the fire service who entered and found Mrs Nash in the living room, while Louise was found on a bed, covered by a bedsheet.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023
From one of the plastic bags we carry our remaining belongings in, Keav takes out a bedsheet and spreads it on the ground.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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
They covered him with curtains of bedsheets before removing him from the stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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
She slithered for hundreds of feet in the unimaginable dark, an almost tangible darkness, blacker than night, blacker than closets with closed doors, blacker than closed eyes under bedsheets.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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