tile
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Roebuck was still lying on the tile floor, his stomach burning.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Einstein problem asks whether a single tile shape, known as a "monotile," can cover an entire surface without creating a repeating pattern.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
He wanted them to sit inside and learn a tile game?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Hardwood floors run throughout the property, including in the bedrooms, save for the entryway which features a terracotta tile and a wrought iron staircase leading up to the second level.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Her slippered feet slid a little on the cold tile when she burst into the kitchen, where Cook was laughing with Henry over some joke or another.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Some see it as a death knell for solar tiles; others, as an opportunity.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Excellent, if your tastes trend toward carpet tiles, hospital lighting, and the trapped-animal sensation of entering a room with no exit.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
There is the intermittent purr of generators, dogs barking, and, from time to time, the dry clack of domino tiles echoing in the street.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Totoki, 62, grew up in Yamaguchi, a prefecture on the westernmost tip of Japan’s main island famous for lush forests and noodles fried on hot tiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
After she falls asleep, I lie on top of the stiff motel bedspread in my clothes and stare at the ceiling tiles.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Most Baiga houses have low mud walls, rough timber and bamboo, and tiled or thatched roofs patched with plastic against the rain.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
This country is tiled with adrift twentysomething males, beset with incoherent politics, whose opinion about any issue is generated in the 10 seconds after they’ve been asked the question.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
Following the incident, photos posted on social media showed shattered glass in the snow outside the entrance to the embassy's consular section, cracks in a glass door and dark marks on a tiled floor.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
She stood for a moment—rather as though it were a rendezvous point of some kind—in the middle of the tiled floor.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
"They get up into the mountains and into these caves, where they make this beautiful tiling pattern," said Western Sydney University insect researcher Eleanor Drinkwater.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Yet after the announcement, a dozen tellers continued to serve the Farsi-speaking customers who trickled in to do business in the bright space decorated with Persian-themed mural work and tiling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Meanwhile the tiling for the kitchen has, Lorenze revealed, been specially created for the couple featuring designs that reflect their passions, interests, and romantic milestones.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
The company, which incorporated in 2020 and is based in Caldwell, appears to provide contractor services for tiling work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
If the tiling had commercial possibilities, it should be done with a certain finesse and quality.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
