Example Sentences

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Housing officers are surprised again by the amount of rent they are paying – about £750 a month, considerably more than the carpetless and ill-maintained property is worth.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2014

That meagerly furnished floor, with its “ill-lit, carpetless corridor,”  reminds Krull of the terrors of the halls in the barracks he had hoped to escape in the grand hotel in Paris.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2014

It was still carpetless and empty, and the clatter of her walking shoes on the floor which her ball slippers had skimmed so noiselessly struck a note that jarred.

From Tiny Luttrell by Hornung, Ernest William

This gaunt, pictureless, carpetless eyrie made her shiver.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian

Pobloff rolled over the carpetless floor in an ecstasy of grief, the lamp barely casting enough light to cover his burly figure, his cheeks trilling with tears.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James