Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of.
1 A threadbare ingrain carpet covered the floor of the front room.
2 I never have an ingrain carpet in my house,-noteven on the chambers.
3 Three-ply or ingrain carpets can be steamed and ironed without removing the tacks.
4 Moreover, melodies tend to ingrain themselves in the listener's mind.
5 The ingrain loyalty of all his years was his again.
6 Our cane seat chairs and ingrain carpet looked less and less attractive every day.
7 A good velvet carpet will last just twice as long as an ingrain one.
8 There were ingrain carpets on the floor and old-fashioned mahogany furniture-thereal thing, not reproductions.
9 If the refinement be ingrain , the familiarity which inevitably breeds contempt will never intrude itself.
10 The floor was covered with a new ingrain carpet.
11 The door was ajar, and he stepped into a little hall covered with ingrain carpet.
12 The carpet, a dark red ingrain , was bought, put down, and wore well for years.
13 On the floor was an old ingrain carpet full of patches and spattered with ink stains.
14 These can work for or against you-ifyou ingrain bad habits, your climbing will reflect them.
15 The company makes ingrain , Brussels, and Wilton carpets.
16 The ingrain and rag carpets had disappeared.
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