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
As her mother walked out of the house, Songmi curled under her bedsheet and cried.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
There was just a lump under a ragged-looking bedsheet.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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
"It does take a bit of effort. I put valuables away, you have to change the bedsheets, cleaning every time. But it is fully worth it," says May.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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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