- present participle of floor.
flooring
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Lauren Wallace, an criminologist with the Los Angeles Police Department, said she found evidence of blood on gym mats and flooring inside the garage at the artist’s Hollywood Hills residence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Airy and light, the decor is both California and traditional in style, with French doors in the living room, multiple fireplaces, and warm wood flooring throughout.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
As well as reusing window blinds and kitchen units, Ali attempted to have the laminate flooring he had installed in his old office removed and reused in his new one.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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
Ruby lives in a lavish modern mansion, with large columns, marble flooring, a grand staircase, and gorgeous bay windows.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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 Black, Robert
They could hear the loose halyards slap the mast and the water splash about beneath the floorings, and the soft lapping of the tide along the planking.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
There is no heating these bare rooms with their icy walls and floorings: out of doors a blizzard is raging that would flay a rhinoceros.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman
The partitions and floorings are now thrown down, and torn up, and the apartments occupied for six years by the hero before whom kings, emperors, and popes had quailed, are now tenanted by cart-horses!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various
