Sentence examples for threadbare carpet from inspiring English sources

There were dark stockings hung over the back of a chair, a gray corset on the threadbare carpet at the foot of the bed.

Only last November did he finish his major project, laying gleaming red bamboo atop concrete tiles that had been hidden by threadbare carpet.

The doors were open, and I walked in to find an elderly couple cleaning up, the babushka sweeping briskly at the threadbare carpet with a broom.

I could see every type of footwear...and I could feel, as I lay breathing deeply on our threadbare carpet, the mingled repercussions of everyone's steps".

The last hostel I stayed in, in the Peak District, met my low expectations: dark Victorian furniture, threadbare carpet, thin mattresses and a chill wind blowing down the corridors.

It ignores the findings of the report it commissioned; it piles on new obligations; it mandates the national living wage and then it pulls out the already threadbare carpet of funding that supports them.

On the badly scarred hardwood floors are threadbare carpets; on the walls, torn and discolored wallpaper.

The hotel took on a dowdy cast, with threadbare carpets and tarnished brass fixtures.

Given the years of neglect, we were not surprised to see peeling paint and falling wallpaper, torn upholstery, timeworn curtains, threadbare carpets and general dinginess all around.

Today Observer journalist Kathryn Whitfield describes how shocked her mum was at the state of the torn curtains, threadbare carpets and stained baths during a stay at Castle Leslie.

Not bad for an entrepreneur who recalls helping his mum colour in the pattern on the family's threadbare carpets with oil paints when he was a child.