sheeting

Example Sentences

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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

At one point, team members constructed a dam using plastic sheeting to carry rising flood water past the cave entrance.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

The script works in as many callbacks as possible: spooky mannequins under plastic sheeting, tacky parade floats with giant fiberglass clams, Hewitt hollering her memorable line: “What are you waiting for?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

The flooding began with a heavy downpour that sent water sheeting off the hillsides and into creeks.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

It would be so easy— He came out of the oil like a whale surfacing, oil sheeting off his face.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi