1
: covering the entire floor
wall-to-wall carpeting
2
a
: covering or filling one entire space or time
a party crammed with wall-to-wall bodies
b
: occurring or found everywhere : ubiquitous

Examples of wall-to-wall in a Sentence

television programming feels as if there are wall-to-wall sitcoms these days
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Get in the game with wall-to-wall college football coverage on Fubo. Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025 The Terrifier maze was awesome with wall-to-wall scares, extreme gore and grisly kills in every scene. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025 Executives concede that Toronto isn’t attracting the kind of wall-to-wall media attention that Cannes and Venice deliver. Brent Lang, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025 European fans have a reputation for bringing football-style energy—chants, songs, and wall-to-wall noise. Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wall-to-wall

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of wall-to-wall was in 1946

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“Wall-to-wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall-to-wall. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

Kids Definition

wall-to-wall

adjective
1
: covering the entire floor
wall-to-wall carpeting
2
: filling an entire space
a beach that was wall-to-wall sunbathers

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