carpeted

past tense of carpet

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of carpeted In the middle of the music video, magazines are lined up with the members plastered on the covers, and paparazzi camera flashes flood carpeted stairs that are super similar to the Metropolitan Museum of Art steps, where celebs usually pose for their innovative outfits for the Met Gala. Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 19 Sep. 2025 Vacmaster Portable Carpet Cleaner Utilizing 15 kilopascals of suction power, the cleaner shampoos carpeted and upholstered surfaces to break up tough messes. Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025 Some of the most notable included the iconic bell tower, the central fountain, the roaming pack of feral cats, and the massive gingko trees that loomed over a section of the academic quad and carpeted the sidewalks with golden leaves each fall. Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025 The current configuration includes a wet bar just off the dining room, a compact kitchen with a walk-in pantry, a black marble fireplace in the wall-to-wall-carpeted living room, and two large walk-in closets in the primary suite. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025 His eight-course menu was off-the-scale scrumptious, and made all the more so by eating it inside the single-story, simple crofter’s farmhouse, carpeted with straw, and lit with tea lights and candles in wall nooks. Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 The high-altitude aspen groves, naturally fire-resistant, stood out like shining islands carpeted in tall emerald grass, some of it tinged black. River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025 Bushwhacking through wildflowers along his property line on a recent day, Williams, Gilbert and the Kreiders looked out on Twin Lake, its surface carpeted in yellow pond lilies and dotted with nesting birds. Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carpeted
Verb
  • Detroit paced the Central for almost the entire season … only to trip over itself, fall down a flight of stairs coated in aioli, and land on a whoopee cushion in front of its crush.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Line a sheet pan with wax or parchment paper coated with cooking spray.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Millais covered her body with flowers that signify love, pain, innocence, and faithfulness.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
    Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Carpeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carpeted. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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