Sentence examples for tangle of sheets from inspiring English sources
Liu Wei, the point guard, lay in a tangle of sheets.
Instead of trying to drag this lifeless creature from a tangle of sheets, pillows and the odd crisp packet or two, try coaxing her gently to crawl out from under the covers.
IN Milton Resnick's living quarters, a spare cube built over a soaring, two-story studio space in a former synagogue on Eldridge Street in Manhattan, the monastic iron bed, as narrow as a child's cot, is unmade, a tangle of sheets at the headboard.
As if to label the narrative "coming-of-age story," he has the boy look at the rumpled bed his parents have slept in and intuit "in the tangle of sheets at least part of what made the world go round".
An emaciated girl with meticulously parted hair compulsively walks the hall in endless circles; a boy stares listlessly at the tangle of sheets on his unmade bed.
No doubt Mrs. Rochester was peeling off clothes and putting them back on, feeling hot and clammy one minute and cold and clammy the next, waking in a tangle of damp sheets.
Once seen, these images — of, for example, a woman wearing little more than a tangle of bed sheets, her eyes rolled up into her head in either "ecstasy" or "delirium," or fixed on the invisible object of her "amorous supplication" — are not easily forgotten, let alone dismissed.
Then I pluck three stuffed animals, six books about a sunglasses-wearing cat, one toy boat and a miniature pumpkin out of the tangle of her sheets and tuck them back up around her shoulders before brushing a kiss across her forehead.
The most famous bed in contemporary art, a tangle of stained and rumpled sheets bearing expensive witness to a time of heartbreak for the artist Tracey Emin, is coming to the Tate gallery on long loan from its new owner, the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim.
I'd used up the battery juice in two telephone handsets and was tangled in sheets of calculations.
