Thesaurus results for SHEATHS

sheaths

noun

plural of sheath

as in coverings

something that encloses another thing especially to protect it he removed his knife from its sheath and started to whittle

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Recent Examples of sheaths Opt for bigger hanging bulbs, discrete flickers, or even hanging sheaths. —

Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026 The payload was designed to test a hypersonic navigation system capable of accurately identifying spacecraft position, even when communications are blocked by intense plasma sheaths during hypersonic flight. —

Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026 These white threads are cloaked in sheaths of chitin — the same sugar polymer that forms the tough exoskeletons of beetles, crabs, and lobsters — and can be easily grown in flasks and Petri dishes. —

Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 Production quirks like volume and pitch changes, multiple beat switches, brash sonic redirections punctuated by everything from samples of glass shattering to synth stabs puncturing through sheaths of filters, make for a kind of chaotic symphony that feels deliriously of the moment. —

Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026 Place your knives in a knife block or knife box (many steak knife sets come with these), or protect them with sheaths before placing them in a drawer. —

Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026 Nuts and fatty fishes, like salmon and sardines, contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are important for building the insulating sheaths that surround the nerve fibers that carry information from one brain cell to another. —

Dana G. Smith, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026 Taylor, then with her fourth husband Richard Burton, wanted to ditch her formal '50s style of long skirts and tasteful sheaths. —

Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025 His models could have been downloaded from Zelda, with cargo pants that held axes and sword sheaths remade in fabric. —

Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025

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Noun

For centuries afterward, successive coverings were laid one on top of another.

— Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 25 May 2026
The company is also encouraging customers to request temporary protective coverings for electrical facilities near active worksites to help prevent accidental contact with uninsulated power lines.

— Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 24 May 2026