A molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor.
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Examples for "baseboard "
1 To either side of the shelving, lining the baseboard , were larger objects.
2 John's head struck the baseboard , and, for a moment he was stunned.
3 Below him, a framed photo of Katy lay angled to a baseboard .
4 Unseen by anyone, a mouse watched from a hole in the baseboard .
5 Within Ape House, faucets at various places near the baseboard sprang to life.
1 If you do not find it there, examine the base or mopboard .
2 Evangeline kicked the mopboard , striking her toes against the molding three times in quick succession.
3 Will you-willyou go over there in the corner by the door and look behind the mopboard ?
4 The slightest sound broke his sleep-thegnawing of a mouse behind the mopboard , or a change in the wind; and then insomnia seized upon him.
1 Sure, that ill-fitting portion of skirting board could merely be poor carpentry.
2 He looked down at the brand new trainers kicking against the skirting board .
3 She has been here before, and recognises a cigarette burn on the skirting board .
4 The paint is lifting from the wall and the skirting board is beginning to bulge.
5 Inverted gaslights stuck out of the skirting board , blue flames jetting down towards the painted floor.
6 Juliet kicked the skirting board in frustration.
7 I stood in the kitchen waking up while watching the cat push the saucer along the skirting board .
8 It was always there in my collection, in one of my little piles next to the skirting board .
9 They began to gnaw the skirting board , and the sound of their sharp little teeth echoed through the room.
10 Their Irish Fairy Door Company designs can be installed outside on a tree or inside on a skirting board or mantelpiece.
11 Then at one point Ruth was running a finger up and down the cassettes stacked in little piles along my skirting board .
12 Not the clinical butcher's shop stink, but that of road kill, or something trapped under a floorboard or behind a skirting board .
13 They'd called it the damp room since that first Sunday, though there was not a sign of rot from ceiling to skirting board .
14 The work you have had done on the hall skirting board was undertaken without any prior, and can not be considered as 'in lieu'.
15 Only a night light glowed blue in the skirting board as Rob went over the lino and sat down on the edge of the bed.
16 Where there was no ventilation, mould developed behind the skirting boards , Dr Shaw said.
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