- plural of sheaf.
sheaves
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
Example Sentences
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Sheaves of golden wheat shimmer in a summer's sun in the remote central highlands of Afghanistan.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2022
When the melody of the old hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sheaves of paper, trash, DVDs that would probably never be played again....This can’t be it.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Another field rose high with waving grain; With bended sickles stand the reaper train: Here stretched in ranks the levell'd swarths are found, Sheaves heap'd on sheaves here thicken up the ground.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
How cheerily the Sabbath-breaking quail Pipes in the corn, and bids us to his Feast Of Wheat Sheaves!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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