- present participle of floor.
flooring
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But there are still major problems, including uneven flooring, and they are now desperate to move out of their once-beloved home and into sheltered accommodation.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Luxe flooring includes slabs of Italian marble and oak, while the new kitchen serves up top-of-the-line appliances and marble counters, and the bathrooms are clad in marble.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
National Park Service crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water last week and then pieces of the new flooring started breaking loose as crews began vacuuming the pool floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Referencing original black-and-white photos, Jackson designed a massive 120-foot-long set, complete with a stage, seating, bleachers and mahogany flooring, to be filled with up to 500 extras.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
It’s even part of the supermarket building, because the wallboard, the flooring, and many other building materials are made with corn.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Items for which demand was last week reported high: Beer glasses and mugs, mirrors, linen, uniforms for barkeeps and barmaids, cabinet work including paneling for bars, murals, mosaic and composition floorings; also sausage, pretzels, pickles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The porters and the Swiss burned the poles of the chairs, and even the floorings and wainscots intended for the great gallery.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
Water splashed on board, the engine hissed as the spray fell on it, and the floorings got wet.
From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
When we were there, great stacks of corn-husks were to be seen in almost every yard; these were placed on floorings, raised by posts some distance above the ground to keep them from animals.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
The pump was clanking hard, but he could hear the water wash about under the floorings, and the launch was very wet.
From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
