bedsheet

[ bed-sheet ]

noun

1. sheet ¹( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedsheet¹

bed + sheet ¹

Example Sentences

She paused beneath a buzzing fluorescent light, then picked up a white bedsheet and said, “It’s time to hang myself.”

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She looped the bedsheet around her neck and, for a few minutes, tried anchoring it.

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She had been hanging by the bedsheet for 16 minutes before guards flashed lights signaling an emergency, video footage shows.

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Five months after Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in a prison cell with a bedsheet while serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, the former New England Patriots tight end has been diagnosed with severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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In a small, oil-stained alley in Long Beach, under a yellow bedsheet tied to a chain-link fence, Fernando Gonzalez sat cross-legged, fighting off sleep amid the summer heat.

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