Sentence examples for couple of sheets from inspiring English sources

To be doubly sure, also pat it dry between a couple of sheets of kitchen paper.

You can go from mixing ingredients to eating in about 30 minutes, even less if you eat the first couple of sheets while you're baking the rest.

Wrap each one in a couple of sheets of newspaper and then store them in airtight containers inside a dark cabinet or cupboard at room temperature.

And I haven't even mentioned the talking, lovesick, white elephant called Hamlet who suddenly appears solidly on stage, made out of a couple of sheets.

When he did die, at seventy-nine, he left a last testament, handwritten in blue ink on a couple of sheets of paper.

To find a couple of sheets of metal, we hung around the recycling centre and picked up a couple of rusty bits from the skip.

6 Line a couple of baking sheets with baking paper.

"If we are going to take a positive, which I always will look for as well, we have had a couple of clean sheets.

Pick up a couple of bath sheets (very large terry-cloth bath towels) and other rich-feeling towels and washcloths at a discounter like Marshalls or at www.bedandbathoutlet.com.

Its games are staged in the kind of household in which the parents have advanced degrees, Lego sets are a standard incentive, and the twins will eagerly bid against each other to decide whose friend gets "the cool L.L. Bean Katahdin 35° sleeping bag" at a slumber party, instead of "a couple of ragged sheets".

Makes 12 300g plain white flour 2 tsp baking powder 2 tsp quatre epices (or mixed spice) A pinch of salt 125g butter 90g sugar, plus extra for sprinkling 150g chopped dried fruit (sultanas, apricots, cherries, blueberries) 1 egg 125ml buttermilk 1 Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6 and grease/line a couple of baking sheets.