- present participle of floor.
flooring
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The small house includes a functional kitchen, wood flooring, and a bathroom, allowing the researchers to recreate ordinary household cleaning activities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
He first ripped out a patch of artificial grass—a creature comfort running down the middle of the facility—and replaced it with rubber flooring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Another previously empty room was transformed into a chic lounge complete with a large couch, marble coffee table, wood flooring, and custom shelving.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The ruins of rooms from Phoenician, Persian and Roman periods have been uncovered, their pink or grey flooring helping to distinguish them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
These he covered with plywood flooring, making a large, rectangular platform, roughly the size of his room at home.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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
There seemed to be some water inside her, for it washed up above the floorings at every heave.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
The fellow pushed him back and, losing his balance as the boat plunged over a comber, he fell heavily upon the floorings.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
"You'd have swamped her in another hour or two—the cabin floorings are all awash."
From Vane of the Timberlands by Harold Bindloss
In providing floorings, the greatest care should be taken to avoid anything liable to become slippery to the tread.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop
