✨📕 The NEWThe NEW Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition Over 5,000 words added — Buy Now! Collegiate DictionaryBuy Now!

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of wall-to-wall Before their arrival, the place had been with one owner for decades and had bad wall-to-wall carpet, cheap beige tiles in the kitchen, and old cabinets, according to the 2020 listing. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Oct. 2025 Thornton is working on a beach condo with a throwback modernist vibe, and while most of the flooring is terrazzo, her team used plush wall-to-wall carpets for the bedrooms in shades of periwinkle, lilac and mint. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025 The story is wall-to-wall clichés, with the playable bits serving as flashbacks to catch audiences up to the present, where the Marines are interrogating a shady government official about how the world went FUBAR. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025 If possible, replace wall-to-wall carpeting with hard flooring options like hardwood, tile, or linoleum. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wall-to-wall
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wall-to-wall
Adjective
  • Luxury brands have sought to distance themselves from the increasingly shabby in-store experience and ubiquitous mark-downs at department stores.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This particular mashup hardly counts as culturally ubiquitous in 2025.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • One cheerfully holds a toothbrush, her hair wrapped in a matching second towel (for me, a universal symbol of maturity and womanhood.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Because the speed of light in a vacuum is always constant, this definition is universal.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead of testing a model on an endless series of questions to evaluate its ability to speak Russian, for example, one benchmark reviewed in the study measures a model’s performance on nine different tasks, like answering yes-or-no questions using information drawn from Russian-language Wikipedia.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But not to fear — the entire For Good appetizer will be made available for endless reheating on Peacock the following day.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Under federal law, super PACs are permitted to accept unlimited contributions, whereas PACs are subject to donation limits.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Get a year of unlimited access for $25 $20 per month.
    Lila Allen, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The Romanians, to widespread shock, then lost in the first round to Cuba, which was hammered 8–0 in the quarterfinal by Sweden.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Rescuers in the Philippines were still searching for more than 100 people missing, mostly in widespread flooding in central provinces.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Wall-to-wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wall-to-wall. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on wall-to-wall

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!