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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
So $50 for an incredible sheet set for a queen bed is a great price. — David Moin, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026 The story goes that Westcott found a sheet of paper with a mailing address for a woman named Anna Sprengel of Stuttgart, Germany. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
Reroll the dough sheets away from you into cylinders and loosely pinch them closed. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025 Save your time and check out the most popular coffee makers, electric toothbrushes, and sheets our readers are loving, just in time for gift-giving season. — Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 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
  • The Valkyries made history in their inaugural season, becoming the first WNBA expansion team to reach the playoffs in its debut year.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Scaling hypersonic composites The expansion comes alongside a broader push to strengthen the US industrial base for hypersonic systems.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of expansion
Verb
  • They are coated with gold and parylene C, a polymer that improves biocompatibility.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Warhol’s Portrait of Michael Chow (1984) shows the restaurateur across two panels coated in the artist’s trademark diamond dust.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of coat
Noun
  • A lot of buildings and fields and parks and cafés and expanses of water and elevators and on-ramps and curbsides.
    — Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Winding through arid basins and rocky mountain passes, the road to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center climbs to 2,500 feet before opening into the vast expanses of the Mojave high desert.
    — Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of expanse
Verb
  • As a result, sellers may be more willing to cut prices or cover closing costs to ink a deal.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Miami, Fort Lauderdale restaurant filth Standing water covered the walk-in cooler floor.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of cover
Noun
  • Leeds is in the zone here, and because most of the tracks are about the same length and there are no ambient interludes or pop-length counterbalances, the album’s lengthy runtime ends up sliding by pretty easily.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Becca Raziuddin, Mane ambassador and celebrity hairstylist, agrees and adds that layers can frame your face, highlight your favorite features, and remove unwanted parts without sacrificing length.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of length
Noun
  • The area sits within the Lake Superior clay plain, where the surrounding soil is largely composed of clay, which can make the water murky and obscure objects beneath the surface.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The men rushed on to the plain, setting more trees ablaze and hurling rocks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of plain
Noun
  • The ad is characteristic of the increasingly dark tone Hilton’s campaign has taken on in the home stretch.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Italy’s Webuild, Portugal’s Mota-Engil, and Turkey’s İçtaş were picked as the preferred bidders for Zambia’s 515-kilometer brand-new stretch of the Lobito railway.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of stretch

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