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"sheaf" Definitions
  1. a number of pieces of paper tied or held together
  2. a bunch of wheat tied together after being cut

141 Sentences With "sheaf"

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Houzz raises the roof with a thick sheaf of crisp bills.
Plus a sheaf of Dickens, "Little Dorrit" and "Great Expectations" especially.
And among the inch-thick sheaf of letters one Berkeley, Calif.
Beside it, on a low stool, a sheaf of corn husks.
It exists, even if nowhere else, in the sheaf of emergency legal
It's very narrow here, Pages and pages of orders in a sheaf.
Her maid of honor, Kimberly Pearson, handed her a sheaf of papers.
Clutched in Ms. Moquete's right hand was a sheaf of job applications.
The sheaf of papers he is looking for is by his laptop.
A sheaf of lawsuits soon arrived—but from DACA's friends, not its foes.
Rifling confusedly through a sheaf of papers, Schabowski mumbled details about new travel
In his lab, Dr. Richard Doll scans through a sheaf of test results.
Unsophisticated investors are being persuaded that they should own a sheaf of stocks.
Sometimes she had the benefit of a notebook or a sheaf of letters.
Myers, Martinez said, arrived with a sheaf of papers and a lot of questions.
Is a clone really more helpful for human advisers than a sheaf of documents?
A sheaf of paperwork from a huge drug bust went into the "no" pile.
"This list of names, this is it," he said, waving a thick sheaf of papers.
Just imagine if Dostoyevsky and James Joyce could have squared off over a sheaf of paper.
His father had given him pencils, crayons and a sheaf of hotel stationery from his travels.
Our new sheaf of time-tested one-pot dinners is full of genius shortcuts like that.
Enkhjargal, Tumurbat's wife, is holding back tears, clutching a sheaf of prescriptions and other medical papers.
A "guard sheaf" would be left in a field to protect it until the harvest was complete.
Jo arrived with a young colleague to translate for us and carried a sheaf of printed remarks.
He reads his confession to charges of bribery from a sheaf of papers gripped in both hands.
I also had a sheaf of personal loans that wound up in my pocket when I got divorced.
This was not because Brain's personnel had generated a sheaf of outrageous new ideas in just a year.
"There's no protocol for women attending," a white man says in a suit holding a sheaf of papers.
Entering a meeting with Mr. Trump last week, Mr. Kobach was photographed carrying a sheaf of policy recommendations.
"I was going to show you something," he says, removing a sheaf of yellow legal paper covered in longhand.
And they proposed a sheaf of bills to tighten the rules for registering to vote and for casting ballots.
I made do by cobbling together a sheaf of maps of varied detail that I printed off the internet.
The sheaf illustrated the lack of urgency that had surrounded notifications of potentially hazardous tampering with gas lines for decades.
There, in one of the acid-free boxes, lay a sheaf of yellowed correspondence between Bill Bowerman and … Bill Knight.
Rick Nybakken, Juno's project manager, held up a sheaf of papers as he celebrated the smooth execution of the maneuver.
One of the village employees lifting a sheaf of papers from the seat beside him and climbing from his van.
Sitting at his desk during an interview after the election, Mr. Mahathir pointed to a sheaf of papers before him.
I went with printed, of course, and what I got was nothing fancy — just a sheaf of pages stapled together.
"Find your magic" was the tagline, and that magic didn't boil down to sweat, swagger or a sheaf of condoms.
The country stands to gain from a sheaf of trade agreements negotiated in 2015, including the American-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.
They saw the tiny sheaf of missiles Trump, Macron and May unleashed on Syria for Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons.
She had a sheaf of papers in one hand and she turned away from him to lay them on the counter.
Not to mention the fact that Marianne, the symbolic female face of France, is often depicted carrying a sheaf of wheat.
He did have a wallet on him, camo-patterned with a velcro closure, but inside is only a sheaf of cash.
A woman used a motorbike seat as a desk as she slowly etched her name in Assamese on a sheaf of documents.
Mr. O'Brien arrived at the restaurant for our interview carrying a sheaf of notes filled with dates and facts tracing his obsession.
After meeting with J., I sat in my office with his file, a thin sheaf of no more than a dozen pages.
The scene, captured by an MSNBC camera, showed Trump looking closely at a sheaf of white papers in his hand, his lips moving.
Studholme, clutching a sheaf of color cards tightly to her chest, began in the living room, which had a north-facing bay window.
The S.D.F. media office added to our growing sheaf of paperwork a permit that allowed us to work in military areas of Rojava.
At the shelter on Tuesday afternoon, two police officers dropped off a sheaf of fliers with graphic warnings about the hazards of K123.
He was holding a binder-clipped sheaf of what looked to be eight or nine long notecards, with a handwritten list on top.
A new one is tight, a bright sheaf of discoveries yet to be made; an old one is a musty but trusted cosy friend.
Not to put too fine a point on the reference, the vandal also wrote "KISS" on the sheaf of papers held by the statue.
All at once I had burst into a sheaf of paper slips, no bigger than Post-its, that were being scattered to the wind.
Her department argues modern presidential administrations, rather than issue consistent regulations, have instead sent out a sheaf of legal guidance for schools to follow.
During his speech to Parliament, he waved a sheaf of papers that he said detailed Ukraine's intelligence about Russian preparations for a ground offensive.
She held a sheaf of papers with the names of children on them, written large enough for parents to see them from a distance.
Carr raced back to his desk and laid out the contents of the package: a sheaf of papers running into a few dozen pages.
The ridesharing company wouldn't leave us alone this week, as per usual, dropping a sheaf of news items since the last time we came together.
The Hebrew people were supposed to offer God a sheaf of the first grain harvested on the day after the Sabbath following the Passover feast.
In one scene, in a fit of furious dissatisfaction, he hurls a sheaf of sketches into a flaming brazier before a group of astonished onlookers.
And piecing together what's important about the patient's history is at times actually harder than when she had to leaf through a sheaf of paper records.
Sorting through a sheaf of old musical scores in the dim light of his basement on a recent evening, Mr. Evans puzzled at the DownBeat accolade.
For decades every morning, he had his assistant print out a sheaf of stories published about him and keep a store of videotapes for ego gratification.
At a briefing on Thursday, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, read from a sheaf of news clippings that he suggested bolstered the president's claim.
"They're desecrating a grave," said Ms. Elam, who has walked the halls of the Capitol with a sheaf of historical documents, making her case to lawmakers.
And a sheaf of Ms. Veselnitskaya's email correspondence released Friday appeared to show that her relationship with Mr. Chaika's office is far closer than she has described.
He waves a sheaf of receipt papers at me while he speaks, struggling to juggle the receipts, his coffee, cigarette, and a phone whose ringer never settles.
He shared with Trump a sheaf of charts relating to unfunded liabilities, the long-term debt problem and the growing share of mandatory spending in federal outlays.
Before him on his desk was an empty brown envelope and his lean fingers were moving busily over the sheaf of newspaper clippings he had just extracted.
Seven months in prison had exhausted him, and the sheaf of papers in a manila folder in his lap seemed a source of as much confusion as clarity.
We were required to report there for yet another piece of paper, having already accumulated a hefty sheaf after some eight hours of road travel over two days.
A FAMILY IS a little kingdom, Samuel Johnson noted, and in the mercantile principality of Gluckstein and Salmon, the heraldic emblem might have been a sheaf of sticks.
In the place of what's called "plot," Kavan offers up a recursive system, an index of reaction points as unsettling and neatly tailored as a sheaf of Rorschach blots.
This has given rise to a sheaf of informed-consent laws in more than half the states, including those propagating scientifically dubious information on fetal pain and the abortion risks.
The IPO window that never closes Last Friday, Bloomberg reported a sheaf of Lyft's financials that paint a reasonably-sharp picture of the ridesharing company's past and expected business performance.
"The Book" typically includes briefing sheets about events the president will attend the next day; his schedule for the day, week and month ahead; and a sheaf of policy papers.
The resulting buzz from those famous gigs and songs are represented with a sheaf of label paperwork: proposals, contracts and other assorted legalese, marked up with Buckley's astute questions and comments.
Diggle claims that Japan's small businesses are still doing budgeting and bookkeeping using spreadsheets, and points out that a sheaf of Excel spreadsheets isn't necessarily the best tool for the job.
A federal appeals court panel refused on Monday to delay a lower court ruling that outlawed a sheaf of restrictions on voting in Wisconsin, enacted by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature.
She would lie in her little twin bed, her glasses perched on her nose, and read and reread a thin sheaf of pages, while I sat in the armchair beside her.
The CAP, a think-tank launched in 2003 as a riposte to George Bush, also released a sheaf of policies aimed at low-skilled workers, including boosts to child care and infrastructure.
I often had the sense of Hertmans pacing across a floor with a sheaf of family photographs in hand, laying out one at a time as he wrestled with his ancestral demons.
Mr. Ryan's free-market, anti-New Deal principles are spelled out in "A Better Way," a sheaf of ambitious proposals on issues ranging from jobs and education to health care and taxes.
Maeve, a major attraction in the center of town, is on a more accommodating clock, though she's still been murdered enough that she has a sheaf of fever-dream drawings of maintenance agents.
The result is more like a sheaf of witness statements than like a chorus of outcries, and, if the Dardennes share the social commitment of Ken Loach, say, they lack his accusing wrath.
In it, she is sitting on a bed, a pale and puny young woman dressed in clothes that are somehow institutional-looking, with a sheaf of long hair falling around her elfin face.
A cynic would say that the Frenchman is no more than a faded simulacrum of his English-speaking forebears, and that would be true if the only evidence were a sheaf of stills.
One way I managed to keep up this amazing level of output was to assemble a sheaf of what I called "modules"—prefabricated sex scenes that I could simply plug into any book.
The gochu ramyun is garnished with daikon kimchi — not the pink, chili-bathed kind, but an unspiced white kimchi that, like the small sheaf of iceberg lettuce, provides a break from the heat.
The letter — four leaves of paper, eight pages in all — was bound with a sheaf of blank pages to make it look thicker and was numbered "Volume 674" of the De Rossi collection.
During a free-associative speech, Mr. Trump directed an aide to bring him a sheaf of news clippings, reminisced at length about his 2016 victory, criticized windmills and provided xenophobic pop culture commentary.
A passer-by added yet another agenda item to an already overburdened program, handing out new lyrics for "White Christmas," by Phyllis Kind, from a little sheaf, "Feminist Carols," distributed by B. Rugged.
Once Muntz's team was finished, the operating system was assembled on a mainframe, then printed out as a sheaf of instructions, which were brought to a nearby facility managed by the defense contractor Raytheon.
"I love your outfit," Michael Smith says as he looks up from a sheaf of fabric swatches to greet Kim Gordon, dressed on a hot Los Angeles afternoon in a gray A-line dress.
At another point, a man who gave his profession as "drawing master" came forward with a sheaf of temple sketches that he hoped to pass on to Mr. Srinivasan in honor of the occasion.
On our table, he placed a sheaf of papers face down — scripted notes it made him feel better to have, which he consulted if I asked a question he wanted to be careful answering.
A little red sheaf of dried chile threads bobbing in the wild pepper and beef soup gives you an idea what you are in for, if the name hasn't already given away the game.
The Department of Justice filed a sheaf of papers with America's highest tribunal, asking it to reinstate Mr Trump's second executive order to pause America's refugee programme and halt travel from six Muslim-majority nations.
Little more than a week after Donald Trump's victory, Xi Jinping, president of the world's second-largest economy, set off for Latin America—his third trip there since 13—clutching a sheaf of trade deals.
Waving a sheaf of paper as he spoke to Parliament, above, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine said he had intelligence on Russian preparations for a ground offensive, although analysts told us an invasion seemed unlikely.
When 19-year-old Wang Peng drenched his naked body in ink, hurling it onto a sheaf of paper, he was viscerally throwing off the shackles of traditional academic constraints of depicting the human nude.
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Corey Lewandowski and Chris Christie — yet to be named attorney general — burst into the cabin with a sheaf of notepaper and a couple of silent young attorneys in tow.
At each one, he took to the stage, a big sheaf of papers in his hands, and, treating people as adults not just backdrops for TV ads, he conducted a seminar on America and the globe.
" In Deuteronomy, a sheaf forgotten in the field was to be left "for the stranger, for the fatherless and the widow"; and "When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again.
Although the article was quickly removed after a reader alerted the publication, Fischer saved the number, which had been written on a yellow sticky note on a sheaf of papers carried by Trump's bodyguard, Keith Schiller.
Inside the building, the music takes us to a video of the singer whose hair, the color of orange pumice cleanser, is braided and tucked into a bonnet upon which is balanced a sheaf of wheat.
CreditCreditMoises Saman/Magnum, for The New York Times President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines waved a thick sheaf of papers on live television, fanning the pages for the public and the national press corps to see.
Ms. Russo, who now is the director of the podcast program at Stony Brook University, stood up with a sheaf of papers that she tossed off one by one, like petals on a flower, as she spoke.
If the thieves try to obtain a replacement in your name, they'll run into difficulty: Unable to present a lost or expired passport, they would need a sheaf of other documents to prove that they are you.
But before his death a year ago, the public record of his work was limited to gerrymandered political maps in North Carolina and a handful of other states, and a sheaf of expert-witness depositions in lawsuits.
He brought along a sheaf of documents, including a form letter from Bratton from July 28, 2015, thanking him for his participation in the brainstorming sessions and eight letters of recommendation from people inside and outside the department.
CHiP requires no set-up, which is good since the sheaf of instruction papers (a lot of them for different languages) fails to entirely explain how to play with CHiP and use its accessories (the band and ball).
He will receive a sheaf of material nonpublic information about the company's operations and plans for trying to rebuild itself, or seek to buyer for some or all of the businesses it acquired over the last few years.
For a while, she contributed regularly to The Broad Sheet, a literary monthly co-edited by Jack Yeats, before starting a paper of her own, The Green Sheaf, which she edited and contributed poems and illustrations in color.
"This is proof that you have lived here and used the forest land, and that you have customary rights over it as indigenous people," explained Rakhmat Hidayat of research organization World Resources Institute (WRI), holding a sheaf of papers.
In his previous works, these encounters have usually been laced with social critique (as in his images of homeless people and day laborers) and/or leavened with physical comedy (a spurt of milk, a wind-tossed sheaf of papers).
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," Khan read from a sheaf of papers he'd picked up at a bookstore in Lahore.
As part of this formality, the seven House impeachment managers solemnly formed a line to walk the articles of impeachment, effectively a sheaf of papers enclosed in two folders, over from the lower chamber to the Senate side of the Capitol.
Ms. Condor, who portrayed a superpowered mall rat in "X-Men: Apocalypse," became a breakout star with the Netflix rom-com "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," in which she played a high schooler with a sheaf of secret crushes.
But in the end, as unlikely as it seemed, he also wound up with a sheaf of rapturous notices and — more unlikely still — a top-selling, critically esteemed recording of the symphony that had possessed him since he was a young man.
The figure's misaligned, oversized eyes, reflecting how most of us feel when facing a sheaf of IKEA assembly instructions, add a pathetic, funny note to the painting, which measures 60 by 48 inches and is one of the largest in the show.
We don't know what the weather was like on the day, late in 2011, that Alex Suarez walked into his boss's office at Wrigley with a sheaf of papers direct from sunny Santo Domingo, and a story about a prospect named Willson Contreras.
From here, Halley's predicament worsens, and the movie, which initially seemed like a sheaf of delicate details—more of a sketchbook than a project, despite the title—acquires both shape and momentum, in its second half, and concludes on a heartbreaking high.
He has been selling the show exuberantly — at a recent event for the news media, he pretended to have forgotten his prepared remarks, prompting an acrobat holding a sheaf of papers to tumble across the stage for a bit of circus humor.
Mr. Trump is a keen student of television ratings: During a recent interview, he produced a sheaf of photocopied Nielsen charts for "The Apprentice" dating to the mid-2000s, and he often calls network executives to discuss the finer points of audience data.
" The reader's tools were "a handful of heavy, black pencils; a sheaf of copy paper; a pot of paste; a pair of scissors; a spike; and in the back of his head, a nice big fund of pertinent (and possibly impertinent) information.
"I couldn't even get bank loans, and had to borrow only from the moneylender at very high rates of interest," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation as he pulled out a sheaf of tattered papers from a plastic bag, the ink fading and edges yellowing.
Justice Gorsuch has already penned or joined a sheaf of conservative opinions and statements on religion, gun rights, gay couples and Mr Trump's travel ban that needle not only the court's liberal justices, but also Anthony Kennedy, his old boss, and John Roberts, the chief.
Books, magazines, candy, fruit—also cigarettes, if someone brought them to us, and, if they didn't, then every two or three days the county provided each of its prisoners a packet of rough-cut tobacco called Prince Albert and a sheaf of cigarette papers—remember, 1967.
Prosecutors in Albuquerque added a sheaf of questions to a 14-page questionnaire, which included what causes potential jurors had contributed to (law enforcement, the homeless and the National Rifle Association were among the choices) and whether they had ever felt threatened by someone with mental illness.
Celia Paul still has her sheaf of hair — graying now, for she is almost 21984 — that falls down past her waist: She is a kind of Rapunzel waiting in her tower for intervention from the world, though whether that intervention would represent rescue or invasion is hard to say.
Sitting at a table in a cafe at Lisbon's international airport one recent afternoon, the blogger, known as "John Doe 2" in the California lawsuit, produced a sheaf of documents from a backpack, including copies of blog articles he has posted about Benfica, and the email from Google.
While Monday's hearing unfolded in City Hall, the City Attorney's office dispatched a sheaf of cease and desist letters, telling the three scooter companies that they had broken California law by allowing customers to ride their motorized scooters on the sidewalks and without helmets, and by obstructing sidewalks without permission.
Among the seasonal decorations at the house—a plastic pumpkin, a sheaf of Indian corn, a silhouette of a black cat arching its back—this grisly, flattened body, with a witch's hat still in place and a broom also stuck to the siding, sent a shudder of revulsion mixed with pity down my spine.
In a further change, Chao dispensed with the tradition of having technical teams give each project an overall rating, instead asking for scores only for seven categories, each with two to five subcategories, presenting the secretary with a sheaf of data rather than a conclusive list of projects that best meet the agency's criteria.
The next morning in the East Wing, a first lady who had spent years in the White House staying away from politics sorted through a thick sheaf of printed messages — a selection of the 22007 she had already received, an amount that would triple by the end of the day — and realized there was an unlikely finale for her. Mrs.
Even those who could readily speak about state and local issues — how the Republicans in the House of Delegates had refused the Medicaid expansion and passed a sheaf of anti-abortion bills; how Loudoun County was the only district in Northern Virginia without full-day kindergarten; how somebody needed to put a stoplight at Waxpool and Demott, where Sorenson was almost killed — were rarely acquainted with the proper channels for action.
She smiled, she looked at his lips when he spoke, questioned him about his cousins and the Duke business, asked his advice on the choice between a deep-blue shawl and one of rose cashmere, and then, from the corner cupboard, she pulled out a sheaf of closely inscribed pages, held together by a dressmaker's pin, detailing the structure and proceedings of her father's timber-contracting business—his work as a timber looker, the cheapest kinds of lumber camps, where to find the best men (Penobscot men, found in Bangor).
On exhibit were a palm-leaf book the size of a sheaf of paint samples, a big ball of raw rubber from a rubber tree (one of Sri Lanka's resources), boxes of Ceylon tea ("We have the best, best tea"), a large stone grinder for spices ("Sri Lankan women were strong, back in the day"), her grandmother's sitar, a replica of a seated Buddha considered to be the fifth-greatest statue in the world, and a statue of the fasting Buddha ("For six years, he ate no food and never opened his eyes") that was made of welded iron.

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