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Linoleum is an English word with synonyms like lino. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Linoleum in a sentence

Linoleum meaning

An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.

Synonyms of Linoleum

lino covering material

Using Linoleum

  • The main meaning on this page is: An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.
  • Useful related words include: lino, covering material.
  • In the example corpus, linoleum often appears in combinations such as: linoleum floor, the linoleum, linoleum from.

Context around Linoleum

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Linoleum

  • In this selection, "linoleum" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, old, red, zigzag, floor, prevents and factory stand out and add context to how "linoleum" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include an old linoleum factory in and and a linoleum block class. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "linoleum" sits close to words such as abattoirs, aberrant and abike, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with linoleum

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Julia Walters works on a linoleum piece. (7 words)

There is no carpet in the house, only hardwood and linoleum flooring. (12 words)

When the men moved the old fridge, they made holes in our linoleum floor. (14 words)

And then a match that has damply pulsed for days can explode into gory visceral life, tearing through the caul to land fully birthed on the ward's linoleum floor before scuttling off into the night. (36 words)

In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for Best Actor at the 36th Academy Awards. (33 words)

Created by Plus Minus Design with Lymesmith, it is a vibrant colour capsule, with numerous shades of teal, pinks and ochres, and bright red linoleum on some of the floors. (30 words)

Example sentences (20)

The use of negative space, by removing material from the linoleum, prevents those portions of linoleum from taking on ink and contacting the print with each application of color.

But soon, they won't be doing it here, in the basement of an old linoleum factory in Ville-Émard, on the banks of the Lachine Canal.

Created by Plus Minus Design with Lymesmith, it is a vibrant colour capsule, with numerous shades of teal, pinks and ochres, and bright red linoleum on some of the floors.

Eventually, we got an excavator, and almost two meters down, we found a body covered with linoleum.

Brass sconces have been added, and shiny zigzag linoleum in red and black paves the floor.

Linoleum has been used to cover up old carpeting, which had a lingering smell of marijuana and potting soil, according to Belgrade’s code enforcement officer.

The Hurley/Kevin Says stage, barely a stage at all, had a ground-level linoleum floor and yellow caution tape strung along the front.

They have linoleum floors and cots or beds inside, and can be easily transported on trucks.

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Throughout the week, participants will learn printmaking by etching linoleum, adding ink and transferring the resulting images to paper.

With linoleum, tile, and other hard surfaces to tackle, suction will only go so far.

He was born in 1923 as Sumner Murray Rothstein to a Jewish family in Boston where his father worked peddling linoleum from a truck door-to-door.

When the men moved the old fridge, they made holes in our linoleum floor.

A big-ass cutting board, ideally approaching the size of a ping-pong table, means you spend a lot less time picking scraps of onions and garlic off the linoleum.

And then a match that has damply pulsed for days can explode into gory visceral life, tearing through the caul to land fully birthed on the ward's linoleum floor before scuttling off into the night.

My bra’s cups keep slipping off my chest and shattering with a crash on the linoleum floor.

In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for Best Actor at the 36th Academy Awards.

Julia Walters works on a linoleum piece.

Paperworkers Local offers a variety of classes coming up this spring, including fabric printing, stitching on prints, solarplate printing and a linoleum block class.

There is no carpet in the house, only hardwood and linoleum flooring.

At the end of the 19th century, however, Shakers adopted some aspects of Victorian decor, such as ornate carved furniture, patterned linoleum, and cabbage-rose wallpaper.

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Common combinations with linoleum

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "linoleum" in a sentence?
An example: "The use of negative space, by removing material from the linoleum, prevents those portions of linoleum from taking on ink and contacting the print with each application of color." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "linoleum" from authentic English texts.
What does "linoleum" mean?
Linoleum means: An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.
What are synonyms of "linoleum"?
Common synonyms of "linoleum" include: lino, covering material.
How many example sentences with "linoleum" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "linoleum", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.