Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rug
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ʌɡ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rug, carpet, carpeting
    Meaning: floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
Usage examples
  • "Set it down on the rug by the fire-place.
  • She slid down on to the rug where she had knelt before.
  • She stood rigid, one foot beating nervously into the soft rug.
  • The rosy hearthstone and sheltered rug were too circumspect for him.
  • "Is this your rug, captain?" asked a bystander just as we were driving off.
  • Amy gave a scream of joy at the sight of Katy, and cuddled down in her lap under the warm rug with a sigh of relief and satisfaction.
  • Doll would come home in the evening after a hard day's sport, wet, tired and dirty, and then deposit herself on the rug before the fire.
  • There seemed no other way to settle it just then, so Bruin was allowed to go back to his rug in the blue room, and the door was securely locked.
  • She was lying on a pile of cushions in one corner of a small-tented apartment which was otherwise bare, except for the rug that covered the floor.
  • These had been left behind in the dead negro's room, and the judge had been sleeping just as she had feared, wrapped in a rug and with uncovered pillow.