dust sheet BrE
dustsheet BrE
drop cloth AmE , also: dropcloth AmE
drop sheet

A description of the missing dustsheet was gone into in some detail.

There was a dustsheet on the bed, but no pillow or eiderdown.

Sara washed the wall and wrapped Rodney's head up in the dustsheet.

On their way out in the car they deposited the dustsheet in the dustbin.

Staunch the blood with Kitman's dustsheet, realize too late what you have used.

It was four months since that dustsheet, concealed in a plastic bag, had been removed by the council's refuse collectors.

Malcolm trips over a dustsheet and causes a plank holding paint and tools to fall on his neck.

Rodney had come in half asleep, climbed the stairs and lain down on the settee which had a dustsheet over one end.

Murph had pulled back the dustsheet to reveal two machine guns strapped to the lattice.

Alison herself was wearing a rather shapeless dress made of some fabric suitable for curtains, which covered her body like a dustsheet draped over furniture.

Romilly lifted a dustsheet and found a bottle of whisky and a pair of tumblers.

They rolled up the dustsheet and wrapped two of Wendy's Marks and Spencer's teacloths round Rodney's neck.

A similar liberal sprinkling went on to the truncheon: then, using the gloves to hold them with, I took the two incriminating articles up to the house and hid them temporarily in a lacquered box under a dustsheet in one of the ten unused bedrooms.