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  • noun Plural form of sheath.

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Examples

  • She did not have the expert's eye for the depth of chest, the wide nostrils, the recuperative lungs, and the muscles under their satin sheaths -- crypts of energy wherein lurked the chemistry of destruction.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • But Parent keeps the darkness from becoming oppressive with a fast-paced plot and well-observed details of the age when a Saturday-night party meant women in sheaths and pearls, men in black horn rims, and “Peter, Paul and Mary on the hi-fi.”

    2006 October « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • But Parent keeps the darkness from becoming oppressive with a fast-paced plot and well-observed details of the age when a Saturday-night party meant women in sheaths and pearls, men in black horn rims, and “Peter, Paul and Mary on the hi-fi.”

    Before Bridget Jones, There Was Gail Parent’s Sheila Levine « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • But Parent keeps the darkness from becoming oppressive with a fast-paced plot and well-observed details of the age when a Saturday-night party meant women in sheaths and pearls, men in black horn rims, and “Peter, Paul and Mary on the hi-fi.”

    2006 October 30 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • She did not have the expert's eye for the depth of chest, the wide nostrils, the recuperative lungs, and the muscles under their satin sheaths -- crypts of energy wherein lurked the chemistry of destruction.

    Chapter 4 1905

  • The Guard wore the bearskins undecorated for battle, but each man had a waxed canvas sheath, eighteen inches long, strapped to his sabre-briquet, and in the sheaths were the plumes which they would fix to the bearskins for their victory parade in Brussels.

    Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

  • Generations will be a subline that includes Deluxe-sized figures only, including a limited number of I like how he has sword sheaths on his hips.

    TFormers.com 2010

  • The edible part of the leek plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths which is sometimes called a stem or stalk.

    Tips N Tricks: The Incredible Edible Leek A Thyme To Bee Comforted 2009

  • The doctrines and teachings regarding several "sheaths" or

    Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • Multiple Sclerosis is a disease in which the fatty myelin 'sheaths' around nerve cells are progressively damaged leading to a variety of symptoms including pain and physical and mental disability.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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