Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: carpets
IPA transcription: [k'ɑɹpəts]
Usage examples
  • How could they say, 'The carpet is ours!' For who brings carpets to bazaars?
  • The softest carpets and rugs covered the floors; rich and tasteful draperies hung at doors and windows.
  • Next summer I'll take her down new furniture and carpets, so she'll have something to look forward to all winter."
  • In due time, however, the parlors were furnished with carpets, curtains, paper, and all the fixtures of modern luxury.
  • The walls of all the rooms was plastered, and most had carpets on the floors, and the whole house was whitewashed on the outside.
  • It is just possible for the casual pedestrian to catch his legs in the silky carpets; but giddy-pates who come here for a walk must be very rare.
  • I shall stroll out this morning, as soon as I've "cleaned myself," and embrace the first stray enterprise that offers. Our Bagdad teems with enchanted carpets.
  • She had made a carpet for her room by sewing together little bits of pieces given her, I suppose, by persons for whom she works, for she goes about fitting and making carpets.
  • English furniture, wall-papers, carpets, curtains, cutlery, garments, upholstery, ranged from the tolerable to the hideous, and were inferior to the manufactures of France and Germany.
  • Not only can the old ones, the centenarians, be recognized by the greenish moss which carpets their carcass and is scattered over their protuberances, but by their natural ferocity, which increases with age.