winding sheet
Example Sentences
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In the kitchen of their lovely shop, Talbott and Arding Cheese and Provisions, we undid its winding sheet.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2016
The scrivener’s pale form appeared to me laid out, among uncaring strangers, in its shivering winding sheet.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2015
I dreamed that the fighters were rolling my body in a winding sheet and lashing my ankles together with golden straw.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2014
Thus the comparison of a nautical sheet to a winding sheet does not correspond.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2013
They walked on the path together, a small girl in a bright orange anorak and a small boy in a grey winding sheet.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
