bed sheet
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- noun
- /bɛd ʃit/
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- The crisp white bed sheet felt cool against my skin as I climbed into bed.
- change the bed sheets
- cotton bed sheets
- stains on my bed sheets
Am I the asshole for refusing to buy my daughter new bed sheets and blankets?
- Am I the asshole for refusing to buy my daughter new bed sheets and blankets?
- I told him about, you know, I was also actually selling bed sheets and towels at the time.
- Who doesn't want better sleep and luxurious feeling bed sheets and a cleaner bedtime experience?
- What if they have like bed sheets that are like Jelly, Star Wars E or Lord of the Rings?
- And then this one, which is essentially Alfie's nightmare, he hates flannel bed sheets because he gets too hot.
- If you have a friend who isn't married and he's never had a girlfriend and he wears a bed sheet every Halloween with the eyes cut out.
- Something else that got sent that made me very excited were these like Siasaka striped bed sheets for Ottie.
- My wife, who's half my size, can match me calorie for calorie and she will sweat through the bed sheets and I'll get fat and that's really frustrating.
- Pulling back my bed sheets, I teeter down the hall to the face of a new clock in the bathroom mirror.
Examples
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Change all the bed sheets tomorrow, before you go to work, and hang out the clothes that are in the washing machine.
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Another tip to stop snoring is to change bed sheets and pillowcases very regularly.
Blog text (17) -
You told me you guys were selling bed sheets.
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I have bed sheets down here and towels down here.
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I donated 2 bags of extra bed sheets on the weekend.
Blog text (21) -
Next, Mike and his mother stopped at the mall to look for new bed sheets and a pillow.
Fiction book (2001) -
Our bed sheets were stained.
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I wake up to find my bed sheets soaked in sweat.
Blog text (20) -
The day before, the girl had washed and dried the bed sheets, and before she put them on again, she had ironed them.
Fiction book (1994) -
We've got new bed sheets on the bed and these are funky.
Synonyms
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A large rectangular cloth used on a bed to cover a mattress
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A large rectangular cloth used to cover a mattress
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A sheet with stretchy edges that fits tightly over a mattress and stays in place
A bed sheet with elastic corners that fits tightly over a mattress
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sheet for a bed' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bed' (furniture for sleeping) with 'sheet' (a piece of cloth used as bedding); the compound simply names the sheet associated with a bed. This is a common noun–noun composition cross-linguistically and follows everyday referential patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bed sheet is a compound name from the simple picture of a large sheet of cloth spread over a bed to cover the mattress. That's why it means 'a big piece of cloth used as bedding'.