flooring
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Lauren Wallace, an criminologist with the Los Angeles Police Department, said she found evidence of blood on gym mats and flooring inside the garage at the artist’s Hollywood Hills residence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
As well as reusing window blinds and kitchen units, Ali attempted to have the laminate flooring he had installed in his old office removed and reused in his new one.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
National Park Service crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water last week and then pieces of the new flooring started breaking loose as crews began vacuuming the pool floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
"We saw walls collapsing, the floors opening up. And then water and mud began spurting up from underneath the flooring."
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
I would say more about the houses themselves, but I lack the vocabulary for all the forms of wall finishings, flooring materials, light fixtures, fireplace equipment, porches, and statuary we encounter.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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
Carroll got no farther than the scuttle, for the saloon floorings on the depressed side were already awash, and he could hear an ominous splashing and gurgling.
From Vane of the Timberlands by Harold Bindloss
The floorings of these houses are made of split bamboo, which offers but a precarious footing to the unsuspecting traveller, as holes are numerous, and a slip through would precipitate one forty feet below.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
The porters and the Swiss burned the poles of the chairs, and even the floorings and wainscots intended for the great gallery.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
“You’d have swamped her in another hour or two; the cabin floorings are all awash.”
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
