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Example sentences for "carpetless"

Lexicographically close words:
carpetbag; carpetbagger; carpetbaggers; carpeted; carpeting; carpets; carpi; carping; carport; carps
  1. Her dishevelment accorded well with the general look of the house; her slippers clicked on the carpetless boards at every shuffling step, and she carried a half-cold, slopped-over cup of coffee.

  2. She had been given a luxurious cabin which seemed a paradise after her dirty, carpetless bedroom, and in it she could laze and lounge in peace without the eternal practising and rehearsals and running errands that her soul loathed.

  3. They heard his heavy tread echoing down the carpetless long corridor.

  4. Yet, even while they talked, they heard him going down the carpetless stairs; the sounds ceased as he crossed the hall; then came the noise of the front door banging, the reverberation even shaking the room a little where they stood.

  5. He struck a match, he found a stump of candle, he made his way by means of this flickering light along the passage and up the carpetless stairs.

  6. This was a huge bedroom, carpetless and nearly bare.

  7. She and Biddy soon entered the house by the back entrance, and ran up some carpetless stairs to Biddy's own room.

  8. She caught Nora's hand; they dashed down the wide, carpetless stairs, crossed a huge hall, and entered a room which was known as the drawing room at Cronane.

  9. I need no reminding of mine, Lije," replied the man gloomily, as the door was closed behind him and the broker proceeded to light a lantern, which he took with apparent familiarity from one corner of the carpetless hall.

  10. The sound of their footsteps had scarce died away upon the carpetless stairs when the stock-broker spoke again.

  11. For surely the carpetless room, cheap table and chairs, the little stove and scanty display of common dishes through the half open closet door were indicative of anything but plenty and comfort, to say the least.

  12. Mavis pulled open the door and walked on to a carpetless landing and stairs.

  13. She then found herself in a carpetless passage lit by gas flaming in a wire cage; here, the smell of drains was even more offensive than before.

  14. A round table stood in the middle of the carpetless room.

  15. The club was absolutely deserted that night; Duane dined there alone, then wandered into the great empty room facing Fifth Avenue, his steps echoing sharply across the carpetless floor.

  16. Presently it flew off her gloved forefinger and fell clattering across the carpetless floor.

  17. Holding their shoes in their hands, Annie and Susan went noiselessly down the carpetless stairs, and found the remaining six girls waiting for them by the side door.

  18. They went down some broad carpetless stairs, along a wide stone hall, and then paused for an instant at a half-open door from which a stream of eager voices issued.

  19. It was a bare, carpetless loom, but eminently businesslike.

  20. By the aid of a vesta he found his way down the dark carpetless stairs, and, hurrying along, soon gained Shaftesbury Avenue, where he sprang into a hansom and gave the man instructions to drive to Sussex Square, Hyde Park.

  21. The tall white marble clock on the chimney-piece had struck nine, and Lady Sarah was sitting alone in the carpetless drawing-room on one of the stiff-backed chairs.

  22. The sound of the wheels of Mrs Hudson's coach were still audible down the road, and as I turned my back on them and followed Mr Ladislaw up the carpetless stairs, it seemed as if I was leaving all hope behind me.

  23. It was one of the happiest times I had known for years, as I knelt there on the hard carpetless floor and found my heart going out to the heart of a friend.


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