shag

Example Sentences

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Now Britons are growing exasperated with a decorator whose tastes run to the intellectual equivalent of avocado-colored appliances and garish shag carpeting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 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

It’s easy to forget the days when children designed their own spaceships and castles out of a stew of mismatched blocks spilled on the living room shag.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024

My best friend’s narrow face, almost buried under his chestnut curly shag, filled the screen in the video-call app.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas