Collocations for "sheet"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sheet" in context.
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sheet
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [cotton, silk, wool, bed, top] sheet
- a [protective, plastic, cover, thin, transparent] sheet
- a [painting, decorating, building] sheet
- a [five-millimeter, one-centimeter] sheet
- [plain, check, patterned, designer] sheets
- a [new, fresh, clean, lined] sheet (of paper)
- [lay, extend, flatten, open, unfold] the sheet
- [wash, change, air, dry, clean, fold] the (bed) sheets
- the child [dirtied, wet, soiled] the sheets
- [form, shape, join, cut, weld] (metal) sheets
- [number, date, sign] each sheet (of paper)
- can I have a new sheet (of paper)?
- the [yard, path, hilltop] was covered in a sheet of snow
- the plane was [wrapped, engulfed, hidden] in a sheet of fog
- the rain was falling in sheets
- a sheet of [steel, paper, plastic]
- a sheet of [fog, ice, snow, liquid nitrogen]
- a sheet of [figures, ideas, instructions]
- sheets of [rain, flames, floods]
- [read, learn, publish] sheet music
- sheet lightning
'sheet' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
attendance
- baking
- blank
- cardboard
- cheat
- clean
- complaint
- cookie
- corpse
- cover
- crib
- drape
- dust
- feeder
- fitted
- foil
- fold
- forge
- grease
- metal
- minus
- music
- paper
- peg
- piano
- portfolio
- protective
- puncture
- rap
- sag
- shear
- signature
- sing
- static
- sticker
- tablet
- tainted
- tear
- thereafter
- wank
- white
- yellow