carpeted

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Swaths of the region are carpeted in grasses that each year grow and then die, creating what Acuña described as a patchwork of layers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

That the world is made of green fields carpeted with sweet grass, where nothing bad ever happens.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

At the latter, now called the Kariye Mosque, Muslim worshipers kneeling on the carpeted floor and praying toward Mecca are flanked by 14th-century mosaics of the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Huge areas of seabed around the Cook Islands are carpeted in polymetallic nodules, lumpy rocks studded with rare earths and critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

As I stepped into the house she sat down on a wooden bench positioned at the bottom of a narrow carpeted staircase.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri