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tile

[tahyl] / taɪl /
NOUN
slab
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Upon entering the home, guests are greeted with an elegant foyer, which boasts an elegant staircase and tile floors.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Inside, Portuguese tile, raffia and colorful linens fill airy living spaces that open onto private pools.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Mosaic tile lettering on the floors marking each apartment number is a recreation of the originals.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Hardwood floors run throughout the property, including in the bedrooms, save for the entryway which features a terracotta tile and a wrought iron staircase leading up to the second level.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

If I did, they’d be flashes of tile patterns, or something.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

"The buildings were in pretty poor condition, with damage to the walls around the doors, the floor tiles, the ceiling tiles."

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Excellent, if your tastes trend toward carpet tiles, hospital lighting, and the trapped-animal sensation of entering a room with no exit.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

There is the intermittent purr of generators, dogs barking, and, from time to time, the dry clack of domino tiles echoing in the street.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Totoki, 62, grew up in Yamaguchi, a prefecture on the westernmost tip of Japan’s main island famous for lush forests and noodles fried on hot tiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

A moment later he rose out of the dust and shook off broken roof tiles.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Others rushed into the room, including three hotel security guards who flung themselves in so quickly their backs slammed against the tiled wall.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2026

This country is tiled with adrift twentysomething males, beset with incoherent politics, whose opinion about any issue is generated in the 10 seconds after they’ve been asked the question.

From Slate Apr. 13, 2026

Like many visitors, Billy first came to Kelvingrove with this family and it is memories of those visits, including sliding around the tiled floors with his sister Flo, in their socks, that he recalls.

From BBC Mar. 30, 2026

Double swinging doors opened into a tiled lobby, where posters of Hindi films were encased in glass displays.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Yet after the announcement, a dozen tellers continued to serve the Farsi-speaking customers who trickled in to do business in the bright space decorated with Persian-themed mural work and tiling.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Meanwhile the tiling for the kitchen has, Lorenze revealed, been specially created for the couple featuring designs that reflect their passions, interests, and romantic milestones.

From MarketWatch Apr. 8, 2026

A new study by mathematicians at Freie Universität Berlin shows that planar tiling, also known as tessellation, is far more than a decorative technique.

From Science Daily Jan. 7, 2026

A student visa for Belarus, available in three weeks for 2.75 million CFA, sought-after tiling jobs in Dubai, and a three-month employment contract in Latvia are just some of the options on the list.

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

Even Holly closed the throttle a notch, dropping until her feet brushed the marble tiling.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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