shag
Example Sentences
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I was an angsty 14-year-old, sprawled on the white shag carpet of my parents’ Upper East Side apartment, mesmerized by a photo taken by Horst Fass in a place called Vietnam.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
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
An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025
In 2018, there were also claims that Australians tried to rig the contest in favour of the shag - a species of cormorant.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024
Despite deep cleaning, the shag carpet still smelled like cigar smoke and bacon grease.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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