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
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
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
Before the brown shag carpet, we slept on my aunt’s couch in Mid-City for six months.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
