wallpaper
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When they handed the property over, it boasted emerald green walls, a rattan monkey chandelier, and banana-leaf wallpaper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
These systems have tics—em-dashes sprinkled everywhere, flattery, frequent resort to antithetical contrast—repeated until they become wallpaper, but the problem is greater than that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Witkoff has become so ubiquitous in international transactions that his role as the co-founder of Trump’s business has all but faded into the gilt wallpaper of the Oval Office.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
That level of period detail extends to Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ball-trim swag valances and wall air vents laser-cut in Moorish patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
He was spattered here and there with paint and calcimine, and there were bits of wallpaper clinging to his hair and whiskers, for he was rather an untidy man.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
The bathrooms exude charm thanks to their patterned wallpapers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
He also thanked the artists who had been involved in creating wallpapers for the app.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
I designed some almost-old-fashioned floral wallpapers for this house, but they’re often purposefully paired with a stripe.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Common to much of the user-generated content are eerie images and haunting stories of mysterious, yellow wallpapered corridors and empty office-like spaces that exist outside of, or beyond, reality itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
He records his first-hand “George Perez Stories” podcast and YouTube videos in a studio wallpapered with every vinyl comedy album he can find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024
Now, ahead of the big game, the league has effectively wallpapered its image onto Las Vegas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Jenkins has designed rooms with wallpapered ceilings featuring elaborate florals, clouds and multicolored, marbleized patterns.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
But for the past eight or ten years, Mr. Larson had not bothered to take down the old papers—he just wallpapered over them with the new ones.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
Another option: wallpapering the ceiling instead of the walls.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Reita Green, a former dancer and actress, has become best friends with wallpapering partner Beverly Pate, who’s 58 years her junior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
She says the company took her and her colleagues on training courses to learn how to to do DIY, such as painting and wallpapering.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
These long chains of fractions could stretch out across 15 feet of notebook pages wallpapering his cell.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023
The mural itself had been damaged in spots by all the wallpapering done over it, so she was not able to make out the artist’s signature.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
