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noun

ˈshēt How to pronounce sheet (audio)
Definition of sheetnext
as in expansion
a wide space or area from the bow of our ship all we could see was an impenetrable sheet of fog

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verb

as in to coat
to form a layer over dust sheeted the floors of the old, abandoned house

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Recent Examples of sheet
Noun
Curtains, towels, sheets, and bedding are all worth a closer look. — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 15 Sep. 2026 Gauthier didn’t have the leverage of salary arbitration and wasn’t eligible for an offer sheet, but the 22-year-old is bound to land a massive deal after a breakout 41-goal season. — Max Bultman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
That weather — sheeting rain and biting cold — hadn’t looked so ideal seven minutes in when Nordi Mukiele slipped. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025 The Company Store knows bedding—from mattresses to sheet sets to duvet inserts and pillows—all in a myriad of colorways and prints to suit every taste. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sheet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheet
  1. expansion
  2. coat
  3. expanse
  4. cover
  5. length
  6. plain
  7. stretch
Noun
  • Amazon has already funded a significant expansion in ULA launch capability to support the Amazon Leo constellation.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The analysts expect China’s semiconductor capital spending to reach $82 billion by 2030, driven by capacity expansion in memory and advanced nodes amid a growing generative AI trend.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz,Jenny Lee,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of expansion
Verb
  • Yes, Stark has painted, or, more accurately, anodized, powder-coated, and otherwise bullied into submission just about everything to black.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
  • In these pieces, which are coated in a palette of bright reds, dusky purples, black, and burl, their provenance becomes even murkier.
    — Jill Singer, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of coat
Noun
  • In this vast expanse of gas and dust, cold molecular hydrogen gas collapses to create new stars.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • There are few harsher agonies than waiting, and throughout the great expanse of the CPKC ‘International’ Grand Prix presented by Rolex at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’, two riders felt that in very different ways.
    — Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of expanse
Verb
  • Chinese authorities this year proposed mutual aid elder care services to cover 70% of regions by 2030.
    — HUIYEE CHIEW AND LYRIC LI THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Control centres in Seoul and Daejeon cover more than 5,000 people under electronic monitoring, and handle 19,000 alerts a day, said The Guardian.
    — Will Barker, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of cover
Noun
  • Despite being constructed from the same chemical building blocks, species can have dramatically different lengths of life.
    — Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • As regulators look to shrink the length of time spent on drug discovery, Isomorphic is betting on a way to quickly transition from discovery to early stage clinical trials.
    — J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of length
Noun
  • This year they've been spotted on the plains more than an hour's drive east of Colorado Springs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This year they’ve been spotted on the plains more than an hour’s drive east of Colorado Springs.
    — Brittany Peterson, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of plain
Noun
  • For instance, a credit card company typically reports to the credit-reporting companies the balance, the minimum monthly payment required and the actual payments made over that stretch of time, Ulzheimer said.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • In the past 30 years, this stretch of the Paraná has become one of South America's most important commercial corridors.
    — Sebastián López Brach, The Dial, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of stretch

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