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bedsheet

[bed-sheet] / ˈbɛdˌʃit /
NOUN
fitted sheet
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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

Next thing the stable floor felt like it was rising and dropping like a fresh-dried bedsheet being snapped and shooked afore it got folded.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bedsheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

For all the digital wizardry emerging in war zones, armed combat still relies on explosive power, much of which comes from the same plants used to make T-shirts and bedsheets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

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

And rising up from these royal, liquid, silken bedsheets of a holy bay is a mountain, right in the middle.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz




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