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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

The front porch was propped on three cinder blocks piled precariously beneath wood flooring that showed signs of rot.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

It’s safe under the floorings and heavy enough to make the salvage worth having.

From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss

They ate hungrily while the water splashed beneath the floorings and the lamp swung at erratic angles as the Cetacea rolled; and Bethune made no objection when Jimmy afterward lighted his pipe.

From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss

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

They could hear the loose halyards slap the mast and the water splash about beneath the floorings, and the soft lapping of the tide along the planking.

From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss




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