wainscoting

How to use wainscoting in a sentence

• The rooms throughout were low, and for the most part long and narrow, with large wide fire-places and deep wainscotings.

  The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope

• The wainscotings cracked under the pressure of people against them.

  Sentimental Education, Volume II | Gustave Flaubert

• The damp in some rooms, and the rats in others, have almost destroyed the wainscotings.

  The Dead Secret | Wilkie Collins

• If moldings and wash-boards or wainscotings are wiped off with a damp cloth, one fruitful source of dust will be avoided.

  The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking | Helen Campbell

• She gazed appreciatively at the high ceiling and the shining oak wainscotings of the wide corridor through which she was passing.

  Marjorie Dean High School Freshman | Pauline Lester