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flooring

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


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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

Home inspectors don’t open up walls and remove flooring to check for hidden defects in a home, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

She crawls along the center beam, from which the narrow planks of flooring emanate, toward the stone bulk of the chimney at the far end.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

When she ran alongside the steamer, Grahame saw a limp, black figure lying huddled on the floorings.

From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

The houses of Mr. Brooke and the rajah are much superior to any others, having the advantage and comfort of wooden sides and floorings.

From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Frank Marryat

The floorings of both the large and small stations are wood, worn to shreds, sometimes, by the tramp of feet.

From First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 by Isabella Strange Trotter

They got down on the wet floorings, and Jimmy looked over the gunwale.

From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss




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