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
• 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
• There was a predictable sheaf of disclosures, waivers and so forth.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
• At the May 2018 hearing, Weiland glanced down at the sheaves of exhibits before him.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
• Carr raced back to his desk and laid out the contents of the package: a sheaf of papers running into a few dozen pages.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• It was wrapped with a thin sheaf of reports scribbled in very tiny handwriting.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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 of his Cuban government hosts gave him a sheaf of yellowing papers and file cards.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Underneath it, a streak of white paint perfectly denotes a sheaf of white paper.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• The man was bent like a parenthesis, with a bald head that shined like the rock that was split open on Rudy Kauffmann's desk, onto which the ancient fellow now tossed a sheaf of papers.
  — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2022
• In a side room, a sheaf of poems, printed on edible paper, sat on a spotlighted pedestal.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• For two months Gellhorn stayed in what would later be named the Lincoln Bedroom, helping Eleanor answer sheaves of mail from people in dire straits.
  — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
• That included the sequester, a sheaf of budget cuts enacted to settle a debt ceiling fight in 2011.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• The trio blasted through the scherzo, a quintessential Ivesian clangor that mashes together a whole sheaf of folk tunes and hymns.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• By putting a sheaf of wheat in her left hand and a scepter in her right, a seventeenth-century restorer turned her into Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain.
  — Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Similar distortions can be found in a sheaf of new lawsuits aimed at vaccine mandates.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2021
• In December, Bushfield showed me, over Zoom, a thick sheaf of papers containing two seasons’ worth of question drafts.
  — Eliza Brooke, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Early on the following morning, farmers began to arrive from the countryside with sheaves of marigolds overflowing from the backs of their pickup trucks or tied to the tops of their cars.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Arrange with wheat sheaves wrapped in satin ribbon for an elegant, natural touch.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
• Harvard Hillel’s president, Jacob Miller, pushed a sheaf of examples across a table during an interview.
  — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024