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flooring

[flawr-ing, flohr-] / ˈflɔr ɪŋ, ˈfloʊr- /


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The kitchen comes complete with an island, breakfast bar, walk-in pantry, and butler’s pantry, while hardwood and stone flooring can be found throughout much of the main level.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The small house includes a functional kitchen, wood flooring, and a bathroom, allowing the researchers to recreate ordinary household cleaning activities.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

He first ripped out a patch of artificial grass—a creature comfort running down the middle of the facility—and replaced it with rubber flooring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The ruins of rooms from Phoenician, Persian and Roman periods have been uncovered, their pink or grey flooring helping to distinguish them.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

After mangling the Hab, I pulled the remaining canvas down to the flooring and resealed it.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Items for which demand was last week reported high: Beer glasses and mugs, mirrors, linen, uniforms for barkeeps and barmaids, cabinet work including paneling for bars, murals, mosaic and composition floorings; also sausage, pretzels, pickles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Water splashed on board, the engine hissed as the spray fell on it, and the floorings got wet.

From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

Everything in her creaked; the floorings sloped away beneath Evelyn's feet, and now the madly-whirling froth poured in across the coaming.

From Vane of the Timberlands by Harold Bindloss

No door, no window, closes and fits well; the floorings frequently exhibit gaps an inch in breadth; and yet rents are very high. 

From A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken

There is no heating these bare rooms with their icy walls and floorings: out of doors a blizzard is raging that would flay a rhinoceros.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas




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