noun
Other Word Forms
- unsheeting adjective
Etymology
Origin of sheeting
Example Sentences
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Most of the main concourse is not accessible and has been screened off using solid metal sheeting.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
The external walls of the soaring residential towers were covered in bamboo scaffolding and wrapped in netting and plastic sheeting.
From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025
The Dodgers will, so that was Friedman late Friday night, drenched in celebratory alcohol after a championship series sweep, sloshing through pools of liquid forming on plastic sheeting.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2025
The flooding began with a heavy downpour that sent water sheeting off the hillsides and into creeks.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
He’d found a pair of workshoes and the boy was wearing blue tennis shoes with rags stuffed into the toes and they had fresh sheeting for face masks.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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