Sentence examples for thin mats from inspiring English sources

Thin mats made of rice straw called tatami covered the floors and were used for sitting.

The thin mats are also ideal in many urban situations and highly desirable for many maintenance applications.

"Harvard can count on enough bright kids willing to sleep on thin mats of straw to go there," Mr. Fogel said.

Many refugees have only the thin summer clothes in which they fled Syria, and are now sleeping on thin mats or blankets laid on the freezing ground.

But from the perspective of Iraqis waiting out the war on plastic sheeting and thin mats in the tent camp, there is little faith in a return anytime soon.

In a tent at the Nasr City sit-in, members of Gamaa al-Islamiya, which carried out a campaign of terrorism in Egypt before renouncing violence more than a decade ago, sat together on the thin mats covering the pavement, where they sleep every day during the long hours of fasting for Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.

I slept on a thin mat on a concrete floor.

In situ hybridizations of thin mat sections showed a heterogeneous vertical distribution of Sulfurihydrogenibium and Chloroflexus.

"They wrapped a thin mat around his body, tied it with tape, and approximately 10 officers kicked him and beat him with sticks, a golf club, and a fire extinguisher on his ribs and upper body," the report said.

Every brother at St . Crispins has his own small room, sparsely furnished with a chair and a desk and a thin mat on the floor on which they sleep.

Here, his photograph of a prostrate, bare-chested man with a thin mat over his face and torso seems like a bit of impromptu horsing around that would have earned André Breton's stamp of approval.