As someone who left high school a year early thanks to an offer from a progressive college that I didn't seek but hungrily accepted (anything to escape those hours of "study hall" that we passed by folding sheets of paper until they couldn't be folded any tighter, at which point we flicked them at one another's heads), I guess I wouldn't know.
"I'm not offering to spend twelve hours a day up a ladder, but some things are easier with two people, like folding sheets".
No matter that their schedules are already twice as busy as mine, I now have to spend the lost hour folding sheets and regretting loss of income.
A sudden storm comes up, and her grandparents work together in the yard to get the "wildly flapping laundry" off the line, folding sheets "with practiced skill" as the lightning hits and the rain pelts down.
In a sudden, daring switch of perspective the voices of non-assassins are heard singing about what they were doing when Kennedy was shot: "I was folding sheets"; "I was getting a shoe shine".
With the advent of the Christian Era, the custom of folding sheets of papyrus or vellum down the middle and stitching the gatherings of two or four sheets along this fold into a cover gave rise to a book of modern form the codex (a word that originally referred to a set of wax tablets coupled with a leather thong).
"Origami engineers" build a variety of objects by folding sheets of rigid material along set creases.
At Klyuev's booth, a steady stream of children tried their hands at folding sheets of aluminum foil into little "boats" capable of remaining afloat in a container of water when a clutch of coins was loaded aboard.
My parents taught me many good lessons: the value of education, a love of books and the trick to folding sheets with fitted corners.
Some of those ads may even feature footage of Barack Obama folding sheets, preparing a meal and otherwise helping out homecare worker Pauline Beck as part of the union's "Walk A Day In My Shoes" campaign.
This paper considers a robot in the form of a self-folding sheet that is capable of origami-style autonomous folding.
