How to Use bedsheet in a Sentence

bedsheet

noun
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  • Young added that the inmates used bedsheets to climb over the barbed wire fence.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • The inmate used bedsheets and tied them together to drop down to the ground from the roof.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
  • But then there are memes, which rise and fall like a bedsheet on the outstretched arms of a spooky ghost.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The next morning, he was found dead with a bedsheet tied around his neck.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 16 June 2023
  • At 6:30 the next morning, he was found with a bedsheet tied around his neck like a noose.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • He had been found injured on the floor of his cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck.
    — Michael Gold, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
  • What would that horse’s head under the bedsheets look like?
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
  • In one photo, a mattress sits on the floor and orange bedsheets are strewn around the room.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Also true to his word, none of it rubbed off on my clothes or my bedsheets, so 10/10 there.
    — Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 1 Apr. 2019
  • Within a week, Bowie was dressed up in a bedsheet as a ghost for Halloween.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2023
  • Four days later, Epstein was found on the floor of his cell with a strip of bedsheet around his neck.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • When night came, Madison wrapped Kyzer's body in a bedsheet and a tarp.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Near a pancaked building, the body of a 3-year-old girl was left covered by a bedsheet.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The video began with Hicks using a piece of paper to hold a white bedsheet around her body.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The signs included a bedsheet hung across the front window.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN, 17 June 2020
  • Negri shows me the classic signs: bedsheets stuffed in the windows, rusting AC units in the side yards.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 June 2019
  • The first features the title of the book against a bright blue sky littered with clouds while a taut white bedsheet stands in the grass below.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Divers found the child’s remains wrapped in a bedsheet weighted down with a cement block.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
  • Young women helped her rig up her bedsheet, which kept out the glaring lights.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2021
  • Trying to make sense of it all is like trying to fold a fitted bedsheet.
    — Dan Zak, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
  • The other slipped a braided bedsheet around his neck and tightened it.
    — Jason Pohl, ProPublica, 20 July 2019
  • Another photo is a close-up of one of the bedsheets that had been tied into a noose.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Two boys held up a floral-patterned bedsheet to shield Mushtaq from the heat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The child who had been in the home told police Fely instructed all the kids to go to a bedroom, and asked for new bedsheets.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The means of suicide was a bedsheet, spokesman Brent Patterson said.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 7 Feb. 2022
  • About 150 guests fled the gun battle and fire sparked by the assault by climbing down bedsheets tied to balconies.
    — Rahim Faiez, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Some 150 guests fled the gun battle and fire sparked by the assault by climbing down bedsheets tied to balconies.
    — Time, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Four canvases, each at least bedsheet size, hang in a compact box of a gallery.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Rider had hanged himself from his bunk bed with a bedsheet.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Yet her first instinct was to go out the window, using bedsheets.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018

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