sheathes in English

verb
1
put (a weapon such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
He stuffed the package into his pocket and sheathed his knife, wiping off the blood and brain matter on the back of Nick's shirt.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "sheathes" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "sheathes", or refer to the context using the word "sheathes" in the English Dictionary.

1. The leaves are broad and tapering, and the sheathes are very rough.

2. Now, with the aid of slow-motion video footage, Dutch researchers have discovered that a mere 200 milliseconds before its tongue strikes, “a chameleon uses the accelerator muscle to spring-load energy into the intralingual sheathes, packing them into one another like sections of a telescope.