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
Upstairs in Grossman’s office, which is now her architecture studio, she also removed the shag carpeting and replaced it with colorful cork flooring designed to feel like “fallen, random leaves,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.
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
Clothes were scattered all over the shag carpeting and I had to wade through them to reach the bed.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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