shag
Example Sentences
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They spread poster boards across the cream-colored shag rug, shook up their paint pens and started to craft their messages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
Upstairs in Grossman’s office, which is now her architecture studio, she also removed the shag carpeting and replaced it with colorful cork flooring designed to feel like “fallen, random leaves,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
The fulcrum of a cultural transition from vibrancy to stagnation was the 1970s, an era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025
Initial figures suggest the shag population is down by 75% on the inner islands, but there is some hope.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024
The second the door is closed, I dump the envelopes onto the shag rug and sit on the closed toilet seat.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
