How to Use sheaf in a Sentence

sheaf

noun
  • The clerk gave us straws in a paper sheaf with the top torn off.
    — Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Two hundred thirty-nine yards and one wet sheaf of grass from home.
    — Tom Chiarella, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2017
  • There was a predictable sheaf of disclosures, waivers and so forth.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • It was wrapped with a thin sheaf of reports scribbled in very tiny handwriting.
    — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
  • This entire object — the space of prime ideals, with the sheaf (and all its stalks) built on top of it — is called an affine scheme.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • At each point in your space, for instance, this sheaf attaches another set, called a stalk.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • Jerry clutched a sheaf of press clippings and documents, yellowed by time.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • At one point, a panicked woman approached, clutching a sheaf of papers.
    — Tommy Trenchard, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • But the car carried only an aide with a sheaf of documents — no candidate.
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
  • One of his Cuban government hosts gave him a sheaf of yellowing papers and file cards.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Underneath it, a streak of white paint perfectly denotes a sheaf of white paper.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Remy would pull up a chair and look through a sheaf of statistics or read the papers while chatting with the players.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2021
  • One pedestrian tried to come through in January wearing a sheaf of tablets that looked like a pair of shorts.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Arrange with wheat sheaves wrapped in satin ribbon for an elegant, natural touch.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Similar distortions can be found in a sheaf of new lawsuits aimed at vaccine mandates.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Surrounded by sheaves of parchment, bottles of ink, and quill pens, monks sat on stools at long tables that sloped upward like lecterns.
    — Heather Millar, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1996
  • When Coke died, in 1842, a stone column with a wheat sheaf on top was erected at Holkham.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Since death was imminent if they were caught, one of the boys and his father buried the sheaf and retrieved it after liberation.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2022
  • While the green jojoba fields resisted the flames, dry wheat sheaves almost ready for harvest acted like kindling.
    — Noga Tarnopolsky, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • Reading from a sheaf of papers in his hands, Dylan exploded the myth of sui-generis brilliance.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The sum total of Washington’s two-state endeavors is a sheaf of memoirs lamenting a lost peace.
    — Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The measure would ban a whole sheaf of actions used by employers to interfere with union organizing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
  • This was not because Brain’s personnel had generated a sheaf of outrageous new ideas in just a year.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2016
  • At the May 2018 hearing, Weiland glanced down at the sheaves of exhibits before him.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • One especially thoughtful friend brought him a sheaf of menus from neighborhood restaurants that would deliver.
    — Margaret Moorman, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Offerings include arts and crafts, caber toss, the haggis hurl, sheaf toss and tug of war in a non-competitive environment.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The sheaves come from farms; inside the shed, workers assess their contents and sort them into new buckets to match 24 pages of orders tacked to the wood walls.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Offerings include arts and crafts, caber toss, the haggis hurl, sheaf toss and tug of war in a non-competitive environment.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The panels show a variety of scenes — a scholar at his desk with an attendant bringing tea, a child riding an ox, a farmer tying together a sheaf of wheat.
    — Michelle Terris, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • More than that, each justice seems to be more interested in speaking for his or her self, with a thick sheaf of concurring and dissenting opinions in more cases.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 May 2018

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