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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sheathe.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sheath.

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Examples

  • So we decided to take a look at her style and we learned that the actress is fluent in fashion, moving comfortably between old-school Hollywood chic-like silk sheathes or leopard print frocks and riskier moves like gold lamé suits.

    Rachel Bilson's Glamorous Style (PHOTOS, POLL) Nathalie Michelle Gorman 2010

  • It was trash, scattered around the cistern: wrappers, plastic sheathes, cigarette packages, reflecting the starlight.

    Christian Beckwith: Adventropy: Adventure Philanthropy at Work Christian Beckwith 2010

  • For the East End-based narrator of Emily Perkins's Novel About My Wife, these "tawdry plastic sheathes of flowers in memory of a loving colour-photocopied mum or restless young chav who's got in the way of somebody's else's crack-fuelled Stanley knife" are "a new form of urban decoration, mawkish post-Diana grief."

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • So we decided to take a look at her style and we learned that the actress is fluent in fashion, moving comfortably between old-school Hollywood chic-like silk sheathes or leopard print frocks and riskier moves like gold lamé suits.

    Rachel Bilson's Glamorous Style (PHOTOS, POLL) Nathalie Michelle Gorman 2010

  • For the East End-based narrator of Emily Perkins's Novel About My Wife, these "tawdry plastic sheathes of flowers in memory of a loving colour-photocopied mum or restless young chav who's got in the way of somebody's else's crack-fuelled Stanley knife" are "a new form of urban decoration, mawkish post-Diana grief."

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • For the East End-based narrator of Emily Perkins's Novel About My Wife, these "tawdry plastic sheathes of flowers in memory of a loving colour-photocopied mum or restless young chav who's got in the way of somebody's else's crack-fuelled Stanley knife" are "a new form of urban decoration, mawkish post-Diana grief."

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • For the East End-based narrator of Emily Perkins's Novel About My Wife, these "tawdry plastic sheathes of flowers in memory of a loving colour-photocopied mum or restless young chav who's got in the way of somebody's else's crack-fuelled Stanley knife" are "a new form of urban decoration, mawkish post-Diana grief."

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • For the East End-based narrator of Emily Perkins's Novel About My Wife, these "tawdry plastic sheathes of flowers in memory of a loving colour-photocopied mum or restless young chav who's got in the way of somebody's else's crack-fuelled Stanley knife" are "a new form of urban decoration, mawkish post-Diana grief."

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • For the East End-based narrator of Emily Perkins's Novel About My Wife, these "tawdry plastic sheathes of flowers in memory of a loving colour-photocopied mum or restless young chav who's got in the way of somebody's else's crack-fuelled Stanley knife" are "a new form of urban decoration, mawkish post-Diana grief."

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • So we decided to take a look at her style and we learned that the actress is fluent in fashion, moving comfortably between old-school Hollywood chic-like silk sheathes or leopard print frocks and riskier moves like gold lamé suits.

    Rachel Bilson's Glamorous Style (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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