Example Sentences

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The problem is that these insiders’ dissent has become so thoroughly institutionalised within the well-carpeted corridors that it now passes unremarked, just an everyday counterpoint to business as usual.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2018

This realistic viewpoint was discovered and front-paged by the New York World-Telegram in the well-carpeted offices of "two financiers closely identified with Morgan interests."

From Time Magazine Archive

A small page admitted us, and we began at once to ascend the broad, well-carpeted stair.

From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

As the girl strode softly across the well-carpeted room she trod on something hard.

From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Wallace, Edgar

The main-deck entrance, on the port side, was into a wide, well-carpeted hallway. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack