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Meanings of threadbare carpet in English

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Usage of threadbare carpet in English
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He could hear nothing, but the drip, drip on the threadbare carpet.
The picture of Dorian Gray (First printing version)
2
She was looking at the threadbare carpet and cradling her half-empty wineglass.
Act of will
3
Charles turned around and trudged over the threadbare carpet to the door.
Witch Week
4
The man writhes like a worm upon the threadbare carpet.
Luna Benamor
5
Under the threadbare carpet the stair-boards creaked as he mounted.
Scoop
6
The floorboards were covered in threadbare carpet, and creaked horribly.
White corridor
7
He knelt on the threadbare carpet and spread out a single sheet of brown paper.
Fatherland
8
Piers looked at the threadbare carpet, reflected, spoke.
The Crown of Life
9
All across the room, at every square of the threadbare carpet, they halted to renew their talk.
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
10
Tenderly he ran his hands over the threadbare carpet which was all the life that Earth now knew.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
11
Not waiting for an answer, he squatted, scooped the tray from the threadbare carpet, and disappeared into the flat.
Bones to Ashes
12
The floor was painted a deep gray and partly covered with a threadbare carpet patterned mostly in shades of brown.
Violists
13
With that, the three shapes began to pad along the hallway, making no noise at all on the threadbare carpet.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
14
I feel comfortable in my flat with its tatty chairs that don't match and the threadbare carpet in the spare room.
Report for Murder
15
He stood and waited for her, deriving faint comfort and courage from the threadbare carpet, patched tablecloth, and poor crazy chairs.
Hyacinth
16
The supreme leader's acolytes praise his spartan lifestyle, and point to his modest wardrobe and a threadbare carpet in his Tehran home.
Reuters
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