wallpaper
Example Sentences
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Broadly ignored for three years and 50 weeks, it registers in the wider public attention when the Olympics comes round, but as little more than wallpaper filling the gaps between the more exciting winter sports.
From BBC
In the guest room, the couple paired the wallpaper with the drapes and the upholstered furniture.
From Los Angeles Times
Emma points me down the hall to a small bathroom covered in pink wallpaper.
From Literature
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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.
She took him back up the stairs, down a hall, and into a big empty room with blue wallpaper.
From Literature
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