Sentence examples for wedding sheets from inspiring English sources

Like the unemployed Italian man in "The Bicycle Thief" who gets hired to put up movie posters and has to pawn his wedding sheets to buy the bike required for the job, the Tampa family had to sell some of their DVDs so the father could buy decent clothes and shoes and pay for gas.

There are moments here that freeze the soul, as when he suddenly advises Othello not to poison Desdemona, but to strangle her in her wedding sheets, as though it were just a helpful piece of advice about an impersonal problem of logistics.

His wife pawns her wedding sheets to buy him a bicycle, but it is stolen on the first day of his new job.

But from henna-stained fingertips to a blood-spotted wedding sheet, the film's images (lovingly captured by Laurent Brunet) remind us that here, female flesh is always the property of men.

I baked wedding and sheet cakes, cookies, tarts, and petit fours.

She demands that they hang out their wedding-night sheet to prove that Karen was, as she and her friends say, pure.

WEEKS after my husband and I married, we received the contact sheets from our wedding photographer, expecting confirmation of what a beautiful, charming, happy couple we had been.

"They know that you can pour blood on the sheets on the wedding night, so I have to have better proof".

In a visual melee, she is torn between comforting a baby swaddled in scandal sheets, posing for wedding photographs, and smiling at a posse of young men dressed in eighteenth-century fancy dress — the English dandy as glib, apolitical grotesque.

In Chinese rural tradition, the bride was expected to show the bloodstains on the bed sheets from her wedding night to prove that her hymen had been broken during sexual intercourse, and that she had therefore been a virgin.

Wrap the wedding gown in this cotton sheet and then put it inside the plastic bag in a flat position until the dress is delivered to the professional dry cleaner.