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Definition of bedsheet
: an oblong piece of usually cotton or linen cloth used as an article of bedding
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Recent Examples of bedsheet from the Web
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Its last homicide was in 2009, when a prisoner strangled his cellmate with a torn bedsheet.
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Lowery depicts ghosts with actors standing under bedsheets, bringing to mind cheap Halloween costumes from childhood.
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The classic cheap Halloween costume--a bedsheet with two holes for eyes--becomes a symbol of grief and longing in David Lowery's spooky-somber chamber piece A Ghost Story.
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Just foolishness of course, just a story to tell, on a night when the bedsheet beasties walk the earth.
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At her bedsheet and blanket store in the Shop on a recent weekday, Cynthia Lu watches the hallway for customers as a Gold Line train screeches to a halt at the station across the street.
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NEW YORK — Becoming a ghost isn't always as simple as throwing on a bedsheet with two eyeholes cut out.
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In a second photograph, the singer can be seen reposing nonchalantly in a bed, wearing the same jumpsuit and covered in part by white bedsheets.
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Seven days after their do-it-yourself wedding — flowers in mason jars, curtains made from bedsheets, pint glasses for party favors — Sissy and Jon upended their lives one more time.
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First Known Use of bedsheet
15th century
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