Sentence examples for great sheets of from inspiring English sources
Great sheets of loose bark hang off these impressively large specimens, some of the tallest I've seen in the city.
Great sheets of water covered roads and fields, stands of trees rearing out of the floodwater like giant hydroponic experiments.
Great sheets of silk later emulate the becalmed surface billowing in the inky moonlight as pearl fishers surface and dive again for their precious trade.
His final conclusion was that "great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel (boulder drift) is found".
It was by now a hysterical downpour, with great sheets of water steaming down from Mweelrea, and the harbor roared in the fattening light.
Out in the Atlantic Ocean great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and settle forever in Limerick.
Where the new rice should be growing in the late autumn sun, there is a great sheet of grey mud.
Suddenly, in that great sheet of light, you saw Africa, not Europe; kente cloth, not Baroque tapestry.
By the time we parked the car and made for the Taos Inn, whose front door is a great sheet of wood dented by adz-blows, the snow was swirling down.
"The oil coats the bottom of the ice, and if the ice is moving, which is often at about 10km a day, it acts like a great sheet of moving blotting paper, absorbing the oil coming up under it, and carrying it away downstream.
Then, there's all the obvious stuff: the cans and bottles and great greasy sheets of paper that fish-and-chips comes wrapped in.
