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How to pronounce sheath in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms case
Type of natural covering, cover, covering
Has types theca, husk, lorica, medullary sheath, myelin sheath, neurilemma, neurolemma
Type Words
Synonyms cocktail dress
Type of dress, frock
Type Words
Type of protective covering, protection, protective cover
Has types fingerstall, cot, holster, aglet, aiglet, scabbard

Examples of sheath

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Adrienne Vittadini sent veteran model Carol Alt down the runway in a red sheath.
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Buyer Pamela Rhoda modeled a gray sheath dress from with a wool fitted overcoat.
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To harvest, cut the stems once the outer sheath turns tan, then rub to separate.
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Try a knee-length black sheath, black sunglasses, chic wrap and snakeskin pumps.
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Courtney Hill Fertitta showed her simply stunning style in his turquoise sheath.
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The sheath covering a muscle in the forearm fails to allow the muscle to expand.
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Nonstick coating keeps food from sticking, and we love the protective sheath too.
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Sleevless knit sheath dress, $130, silk-dot print scarf, $49, at Banana Republic.
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The disc golfer measures out his shot and pulls the correct disc from its sheath.
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More examples
  • A protective covering (as for a knife or sword)
  • An enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
  • Cocktail dress: a dress suitable for formal occasions
  • (sheathed) enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed"
  • Sheath is the third album by the British IDM act LFO, originally released on Warp Records in 2003.
  • A scabbard; a holster for a sword; Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard for a sword that is for the purpose of holding an object that is longer than it is wide; a case; A tight-fitting dress; A condom; The skin covering the penis of e.g. ...
  • (sheaths) Usually have straight or close fitting skirts, accompanied by a form fitting bodice. The skirt is often ankle length and sometimes has a slit in either the front, side, or back to make walking easier.
  • (sheaths) the oldest Vedantic knowledge tells us of five degrees of our being, the material, the vital, the mental, the ideal, the spiritual or beatific and to each of these grades of our soul there corresponds a grade of our substance, a sheath as it was called in the ancient figurative ...
  • The tube shaped, basal section of the grass leaf enclosing the stem.