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Example sentences for "carpeted"

Lexicographically close words:
carpes; carpet; carpetbag; carpetbagger; carpetbaggers; carpeting; carpetless; carpets; carpi; carping
  1. Down the carpeted hall he crept to the stairway.

  2. Feverish with impatience because of the valuable time he had already lost, he bounded up the heavily carpeted stairs two at a time.

  3. Mine was carpeted with an extra blanket to exclude draughts and make it feel comfortable under one's bare feet in the morning.

  4. He was lying back again, staring out at the respectable imitation of a lawn, at rose beds, carpeted with over-blown mignonette, and a lone untidy tamarisk that flung a spiky shadow on the grass.

  5. Half the polished floor was uncovered; the rest carpeted and furnished, for lookers-on.

  6. The castle courts, except the center one, are beautifully carpeted with green turf, which gives them a very pleasant aspect.

  7. Doubtless this great stone pavement of a floor was carpeted with straw at banquets, after the illustrious Becket's pattern.

  8. On the broad space before the holy of holies, carpeted with rugs, lighted by jewel-crusted lamps, were the divan and table of the king, who was to keep this place during the three days of the feast.

  9. I see the steps ascending to the holy shrine all carpeted with stiff gold.

  10. One look backward, a stealthy creeping toward the soft-carpeted stair, another stealthy move and she was on her way out.

  11. A mouse could scarcely have made less sound, as, gliding down the carpeted aisle, he at last reached a door at the left of the stage.

  12. I swan tu man, Par, it was like walkin through a footpath kivered over with meadow grass and wild posies, as I went up the stairs, all carpeted off and a shinin with bars of gold.

  13. Wal, I got into the counting-room at last, and a harnsome little room it was, all carpeted and fixed out like some of our best rooms in Connecticut.

  14. All the boat aft was cushioned and carpeted with stuffs brilliant with Tyrian red.

  15. The floor was carpeted with gray rugs so thick that an invading foot fell half buried and soundless.

  16. The walls around it were so gigantic, and everything about it was on so mighty a scale that it was belittled, by contrast, to what I have likened it to--a cozy and carpeted parlor.

  17. On one side of the pavilion was an immense dais, carpeted with the richest fabrics from the looms and dyeing-vats of Tyre.

  18. Perhaps the Greeks were right in their hope of the Isles of the Blessed, carpeted with perpetual verdure, gemmed with flowers, and canopied with softest skies.

  19. They walked the miles of green carpeted corridor.

  20. We carpeted the ground, which was quite dry, with green palmetto leaves, and that rendered it sufficiently comfortable for the present.

  21. For this purpose we chose a spot where the ground was carpeted with a soft green turf; and upon it we all sat down to wait the result.

  22. Blue woods belted the distance; all in front of them was deep, moist meadow-land, carpeted with thickets of wild iris, through which the stream wound in pools of gold.

  23. Carpets he had never used in his life, but he now admitted that they were very pleasant and comfortable, and ordered his house to be carpeted throughout.

  24. An immense white umbrella, lined with gold-colored silk, was fixed to cover the seats, and the whole gondola was lined and carpeted with white and pale blue.

  25. The moon painted massive shadows upon the debris, and carpeted the outer place with the black image of a towering propylaeum.

  26. Before me lay a little valley carpeted with heather, purple slopes hemming it in.

  27. The General was ushered into the specially decorated reception chamber, which was hung and carpeted with brilliant red velvet and draped with the Allied flags.

  28. The aisles of the great terminal were carpeted with red plush.

  29. The bridge became carpeted with German dead and wounded.

  30. Treeless ridges carpeted with just enough green to veil the rocky formation of the ground began to break out with a superficial rash of the colour of fresh earth.

  31. The Grand Ducal pair and their children walked up the rounded, red-carpeted steps to the capacious gilded chairs which stood at the top.

  32. Carpeted steps led from a gallery hung with big pictures, down into the white-and-gold garden room, behind the glass door of which lay the terrace.

  33. One wall was covered with books, but the main library was in the adjacent room, which was smaller, and carpeted like the big one.

  34. Thereupon I discovered that the whole lucio around them and stretching away, say a league in length, was carpeted with legions of duck, which had not been noticed with the naked eye.

  35. Next, for a whole day we ride through open forest of evergreen oak and wild-olive, the floor carpeted with tasselled grasses, tufty broom, and fennel.

  36. The ground was carpeted with green grass and beautiful flowers of various hues; also in the forest was an abundance of wild game, deer, turkeys, and so forth.

  37. The rolling lawn seemed carpeted with green velvet, enlivened here and there with groups of beautiful foliage plants.

  38. He was staring down a brilliantly lighted, richly carpeted corridor.

  39. At the top of the first landing, a long, wide, heavily carpeted corridor was before him.

  40. And then, silent as a shadow in his movements, the door left just ajar behind him, he stole down the carpeted hallway.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carpeted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.