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
Brettler removed the shag carpeting in the living area and bedroom and poured terrazzo floors to match the original floors throughout the house, many of which had to be repaired.
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
There is good news for some of the seabirds that breed in the UK, with the shag moving from the red list to the amber and the black guillemot from the amber to the green.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024
Her black hair was cut in a shag.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
