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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Establishments range from dedicated women's sports bars to large venues with wall-to-wall screens. Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Get in the game with wall-to-wall WNBA coverage on Fubo. Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 That effort began with a wall-to-wall inspection of the service’s more than 60,000 barracks rooms in early 2024. Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025 Many of the nation’s leading newscasts and daytime cable news shows feature wall-to-wall ads for drugs to combat conditions ranging from obesity to eczema and Crohn’s disease. Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 14 Sep. 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 8 Oct. 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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