Sentence examples for window sheets from inspiring English sources

Relevant results concerned the optical loss (reflectance) of devices and the transmittance of semitransparent materials, used in the window sheets, under both direct and diffuse light.

In the windows, sheets of torn, dirty plastic substitute for glass.

Four girls, all 16 or 17, climbed out a third-story window using sheets tied together, the police said, and managed to get within eight feet of the ground before falling.

For mixed-light situations where daylight enters through windows but tungsten light is used for the interior, the practice has been to cover the windows with sheets of plastic similar in colour to the No. 85 filter.

Rain passes my windows in sheets.

Around and beneath them, the hills of rubble disclose the occasional door, window and sheet of twisted corrugated iron.

She has covered the 11 small windows with sheets of waxed paper, and as a result the rooms seem to be illuminated from within.

Bought at the kitchen table of a farmhouse whose windows were sheets of plastic hung with tacks, then consumed in our cars on gravel county roads.

There were other reasons for covering up the rose, chancel and aisle windows with sheets of drywall: to insulate neighbors from the music and isolate the fragile stained glass from sound vibrations.

Ms. Sanno, who said she had returned after fleeing to a neighboring prefecture for nearly two weeks, had covered her shop's windows with sheets proclaiming, "Hang in there, Minamisoma!" In heavily damaged coastal areas, survivors were coming out to pick through the ruins for belongings, while rescue workers searched for bodies.

Charlotte Stretch Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop This depiction of an elderly rural couple attempting to shield themselves from a nuclear blast by putting blind trust in government guidelines (cover windows with sheets and climb into paper bags) caused a sensation when it was published in 1982.