wallpaper
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Thanks to the dictionary pages she uses for wallpaper, she has a large vocabulary and is prone to ruminating about her ultimate purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
After several thousand hours of filming, the wallpaper is changed to provide clients with variety.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
With nothing but a handheld camcorder, a man traverses endless corridors and rooms adorned with soft-chartreuse wallpaper.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
Inside, the wallpaper is flaking, carpets are frayed and doors are broken.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
The dining room is nice and bright and has wallpaper with fruit designs.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
The great outdoors played a significant role in the design of the home, which was outfitted with multiple organic elements, including silk wallpapers, fossil stone floors, and rich wood accents and beams throughout.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
"The target market for this is insanely small," he told one user on X last September who questioned his decision to launch a digital wallpapers app.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
I designed some almost-old-fashioned floral wallpapers for this house, but they’re often purposefully paired with a stripe.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
He records his first-hand “George Perez Stories” podcast and YouTube videos in a studio wallpapered with every vinyl comedy album he can find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024
Now, ahead of the big game, the league has effectively wallpapered its image onto Las Vegas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Elliott said she wallpapered the room with 1 millimeter of a cork product, and the layers help with soundproofing.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
Fabric is equally integral to the pictures of Ruth Leonela Buentello, a first-generation Mexican American whose work is hung in a gallery that’s been wallpapered for maximum homeyness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
At the far end was a nearly invisible door, wallpapered over like the entrance to a secret passageway.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
And Nickey, who happened to be wallpapering his own bathroom, invited us along to see how it’s done.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
She says the company took her and her colleagues on training courses to learn how to to do DIY, such as painting and wallpapering.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
These long chains of fractions could stretch out across 15 feet of notebook pages wallpapering his cell.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023
For more than half a century, Reita Green has run her own wallpapering business in and around Los Angeles.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
The mural itself had been damaged in spots by all the wallpapering done over it, so she was not able to make out the artist’s signature.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
