sheaves

¹

[sheevz]

noun

1. plural of sheaf.

sheaves

²

[shivz, sheevz]

noun

1. plural of sheave.

sheaves

/ ʃiːvz /

noun

1. the plural of sheaf

Example Sentences

He was impressed by a man in a suit who showed up every day brandishing sheaves of paper, and who seemed to be in charge.

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At his farm just outside Tunis, Hasan Chetoui stood clutching dry sheaves of wheat, the ears empty husks, after managing to save only 20 hectares of the 150 he planted.

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In an excerpt of the poem ‘the red sheaves’ from his forthcoming collection, ‘perennial fashion presence falling,’ the multihyphenate artist gives a sneak peek of an infinitely rich and more unruly freedom jam.

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One depicted golden sheaves of wheat, another quarried gray ore, another the tufted wool of sheep.

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What follows is simply a sampler, a few sheaves from this fall’s rich and strange abundance.

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