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 was greeted by the flashing cameras of 22 photographers as he entered the dugout before kick-off, while one City fan raised a bedsheet with 'Pep Stay' scribbled on it.
From BBC ● May 19, 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
Mariam saw a bedsheet hanging from a window on Jadeh Maywand.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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
Amazon, the Jeff Bezos-owned online retailer that sells items ranging from electronics to bedsheets, started carrying groceries and household essentials more than two decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 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
Every inmate receives a bag containing two blankets, bedsheets, personal hygiene products and cleaning supplies, said Pierre Botton, a former inmate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
At this, there was a rattle in the bushes, and Werfel appeared—“Hold, you scoundrel du Burgh!”—hopping on one leg, trying to untangle his bedsheets from the bushes.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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