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
She wore a green silk dress that made her seem as if she belonged on that green velvet couch with that green-and-gold wallpaper.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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
The great outdoors played a significant role in the design of the home, which was outfitted with multiple organic elements, including silk wallpapers, fossil stone floors, and rich wood accents and beams throughout.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
The popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee has announced he plans to shut down his subscription app for mobile phone wallpapers, Panels.
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
Flames had made their way into the lobby, catching on the thick carpet, on the restored wallpapers, the posters.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
Elliott said she wallpapered the room with 1 millimeter of a cork product, and the layers help with soundproofing.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
At Amy Fontaine’s, a cheerfully wallpapered Midtown East watering hole, I ordered the “Mayo-nog” with trepidation.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022
Like the rest of the theater, it is wallpapered with old posters from shows throughout the history of the playhouse.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
If Nickey and Kehoe are working with a lively pattern in a bedroom, for instance, wallpapering a single wall behind the bed may be enough.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
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
For more than half a century, Reita Green has run her own wallpapering business in and around Los Angeles.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
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
