shag

Example Sentences

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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

Brettler removed the shag carpeting in the living area and bedroom and poured terrazzo floors to match the original floors throughout the house, many of which had to be repaired.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 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

Initial figures suggest the shag population is down by 75% on the inner islands, but there is some hope.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

Lice Peeking was stretched facedown on the blue shag carpet, and he wasn’t moving.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen