[
US
/ˈkɑɹpətɪd/
]
[ UK /kˈɑːpɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːpɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination
the carpeted hallway
a flower-carpeted hillside
How To Use carpeted In A Sentence
- Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls. 10 of the best music venues in London
- Not until spring could he stand on uncarpeted floors without his rear legs splaying out in a V. Suddenly paralyzed, Rufus doggedly learns to walk again
- Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants. Nicholas Nickleby
- Walking across a carpeted floor is enough to release surplus electrons. Times, Sunday Times
- The stairs were carpeted with a brown and blue floral design.
- Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.
- The forest floor was carpeted with wild flowers.
- It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock. The Guests Of Hercules
- The sanctuary is a low-lit carpeted hall filled with nine long rows of padded, auditorium-style seats clustered around a raised platform called the bimah. American Grace
- They were carpeted with a faded red and blue runner held in place with brass stair rods and rings.