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  • adjective Resembling a sheet

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  • adjective resembling a sheet

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Examples

  • Instantly, as men and slaves screamed and fled, a frightening torrent of sheetlike flames, like narrow, roaring, successive walls of fire, leapt upward and outward, surging, racing away from me, seeming for a moment to engulf the room.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • Her third cut split the sheetlike fascial layer, all shiny and white, where the muscles converged.

    The Silent Cradle Cuthbert, Margaret 1998

  • A sheetlike piece of metal slanted across the upper body.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • A sheetlike piece of metal slanted across the upper body.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • It is sometimes almost as though my entire skin was a single, extensive, sheetlike, marvelous tactile organ.

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

  • Ayesha's boudoir, and found her also ready, her dark cloak thrown over her winding-sheetlike wrappings.

    She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • At Steppenwolf, most of James Schuette's set is initially covered with an enormous, sheetlike curtain, adding yet another grimy veil that has to be parted before the other actions can take place.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • At Steppenwolf, most of James Schuette's set is initially covered with an enormous, sheetlike curtain, adding yet another grimy veil that has to be parted before the other actions can take place.

    Chicago Reader Tony Adler 2010

  • A third Toledo start-up, Xunlight Corp., is hunting for customers for its sheetlike solar panels.

    unknown title 2009

  • A third Toledo start-up, Xunlight Corp., is hunting for customers for its sheetlike solar panels.

    unknown title 2009

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