carpeting

Example Sentences

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Upon entering the abode, guests are greeted with green carpeting that leads to a white staircase.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 12, 2026

Called bonus depreciation, the tax break applies to purchases such as new carpeting or appliances for owners of rental properties, or new computer equipment or a vehicle for business owners.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

Now Britons are growing exasperated with a decorator whose tastes run to the intellectual equivalent of avocado-colored appliances and garish shag carpeting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The fulcrum of a cultural transition from vibrancy to stagnation was the 1970s, an era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

Clothes were scattered all over the shag carpeting and I had to wade through them to reach the bed.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides