oriental rug

Example Sentences

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In photos, he hops around freely on a blue Oriental rug one day, a smooth painted-wood porch the next.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2018

“Be on time,” says Mirren, sitting on the world’s largest Oriental rug, in her 27th and final episode.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2018

"They impose patterns from things we have seen before on to our visual input, making us see faces in the clouds or intricate Oriental rug patterns on fields of grass."

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2015

Capitol was still Harry Reid’s in September when he eagerly scooched his leather chair across the Oriental rug to gaze at something that, he was told, would change transportation forever.

From Forbes • Feb. 11, 2015

"On the afternoon of Halloween, when we were watching the smoke in the Westing house chimney, you told a story about a corpse on an Oriental rug."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin