sheet down

verb

1. intr, adverb (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets

Example Sentences

Father Huber pulled the white sheet down so he could anoint the forehead of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

From The Daily Beast

The person who sleeps in the bed naturally pushes the under sheet down, and pulls the upper sheet up.

From Project Gutenberg

Put each piece on separately, turning the upper sheet down over the others.

From Project Gutenberg

David Ramsay approached the body, and, turning the sheet down from the face, stood gazing on the features of his son.

From Project Gutenberg

She took the sheet down from the music-rest and looked at the picture of the lithographed title.

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I'd pay that any time to get ahead of the Screamer, and I rather think I salted that enterprising sheet down this time, don't you?

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