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Very pale in the face, as in She was white as a sheet after that near encounter. This simile, dating from about 1600, survives despite the fact that bedsheets now come in all colors. QUIZ WILL YOU SAIL OR STUMBLE ON THESE GRAMMAR QUESTIONS? Smoothly step
over to these common grammar mistakes that trip many people up. Good luck! Question 1 of 7 Fill in the blank: I can’t figure out _____ gave me this gift. white alder, white alert,
white alkali, white ant, white area, white as a sheet, white ash,
White Australia policy, white bacon, whitebait, white bass The American Heritage®
Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis? If Congress
accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent. There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.Words nearby white as a sheet
How to use white as a sheet in a sentence
The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
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If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!
Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
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[as] white as a sheet Definitions and Synonyms
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extremely pale
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Looking unhealthy or ill
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a high colour
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