Example Sentences

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Now, chair rails, booths, wainscotting and window panes shine, restored to their original glory much like when Gus Carlson first built the hotel more than 100 years ago.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2021

They fixed up the twenty-six-seat dining room, putting in wainscotting and a bar made from a farmhouse floor.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

They might be in the wainscotting, but they’re putting it out there.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2014

We are – and you brought us out of the wainscotting like so many freaky old bastards.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

Every panel of the wainscotting seemed as hollow as its fellow—each projection as firmly secured.

From The Childerbridge Mystery by Boothby, Guy Newell