Example Sentences

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Swaths of the region are carpeted in grasses that each year grow and then die, creating what Acuña described as a patchwork of layers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

That the world is made of green fields carpeted with sweet grass, where nothing bad ever happens.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

Poised on a colorful, carpeted platform in a gleaming leotard, with a hefty brown braid of hair falling over one shoulder, Folan would spend her program reaching, bending, breathing and twisting her limbs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Huge areas of seabed around the Cook Islands are carpeted in polymetallic nodules, lumpy rocks studded with rare earths and critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

The ground was carpeted in a milky fog that had not been there moments ago, and above, the heavens were peppered with more purple stars than Clare had ever seen.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman