A sheet of rain swept over us, driven by a gust of wind.

A broad, crackling sheet, it swept downward to envelop the old depot in its maw.

The Forsaken's silver perch darted forward - and suddenly a huge sheet of fire, like a thin slice from a monstrous flame, swept back toward Rand, a mile high and a mile wide.

A solid sheet of rain swept the ports, and the Southern Queen began to roll on the rising swells.

Another sheet of rain swept across them as he and Sylvie settled in again, bracing themselves.

At the edge of the sea, a glassy sheet of water swept across a scattering of smooth-worn and ageless pebbles.

A moving sheet of fire swept relentlessly across the revetment, of the creek.

One day a sheet of dull purple light swept in from the horizon, and as it got closer I could see that it was a whole colony of the Loarra, their individual colors and fluctuations blending into that single purple mass.

Crackling sheets of flame swept over the Mustang and then curled off into nothingness, exposing unscorched paint and chrome and four headlights stabbing the darkness.

As sheets of cold rain swept this border hamlet, whose name means Between on the Oder, East German Trabant and Wartburg automobiles puttered over gentle hills up to and across the border to West Germany.