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Recent Examples of tile The 5 Best Vacuums for Pet Hair, Tested by BHG Factors to Consider Hard flooring like tile, laminate, and hardwood is generally easier to keep clean compared to that of carpet. Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2025 The location reopened in May of last year: ATMs are walled in by vertical stripes of handmade blue subway tile and lit by bulbous, ’60s-style lights. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Mar. 2025 Each restaurant has distinct design motifs—from the pink tile at Flamingo Café to the antique ship’s wheel at Brine to the woven chandelier above the bar at Cobo. Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2025 Tapping on this tile will launch a short step-by-step tutorial showing you how to connect a second Pixel phone as a remote camera. Paul Monckton, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tile
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Noun
  • In a 6-quart pan cook pasta according to package directions; drain, reserving 1/2 cup cooking water.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025
  • An open drain; a loathsome sore unbandaged; a dirty act done publicly; a lazar-house with all its doors and windows open … Gross, almost putrid indecorum … Literary carrion … Crapulous stuff … Novel and perilous nuisance.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • The red car that blocked the hydrant belongs to a 27-year-old woman who later turned up at the scene with a 6-year-old child.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Citizens are urged to contact the city with information, including photos, of those possibly misusing the hydrants.
    Chuck Rupnow, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The rear cameras are a 48-megapixel main and a 13-megapixel ultra-wide—both reduced from the 50-megapixel and 48-megapixel cameras on the Pixel 9.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Kids eat free on Tuesdays, a free bottle of wine accompanies two entrees on Wednesdays and two drinks, two mains and a dessert run customers $85 on date night Thursdays.
    Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Last year everything apart from the pipes and wiring was redone in a major refurbishment.
    Fiona Bornhöft, Architectural Digest, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Suddenly, violent winds roared, debris whizzed through the air and pipes burst as the tornado tore into their home.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In 2016, after IRIS assessed the toxicity of chloroprene, one of the chemicals coming out of the plant’s smokestacks, the people of St. John discovered the main source of their problems.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 6 Mar. 2025
  • One house had been completely buried in snow, with just the smokestack protruding, and the family inside had to be dug out with heavy equipment.
    Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Its caretakers had firefighting equipment, hoses and standpipes at the ready to draw water across different points of the property.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • My favorite subject by far has been standpipes, those systems that supply water to a building in case of fire.
    James Barron, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • They shouldn’t be worn for prolonged periods, though, because the compression can lead to clogged milk ducts.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Rather than huge fans on the set with a massive amount of electronic noise, those fans are outside the stage and they’re tubed in through on plastic flexible ducts.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Tile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tile. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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