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  • adjective Having the characteristics of a carpet

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Examples

  • It was only in their aftermath that we discovered how many of our own countrymen—who spoke the same language and practiced the same religion and lived on the same carpetlike, green, undulating, limestone-ridged farmland—we would willingly kill in support of causes that were not only indefensible but had little to do with our lives.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Once again he thought he smelled an odor of chrysanthemums or leakage from a gas well on the wind, or perhaps it was lichen or toadstools, the kind that grew carpetlike inside perennial shade, often on graves.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • It was only in their aftermath that we discovered how many of our own countrymen—who spoke the same language and practiced the same religion and lived on the same carpetlike, green, undulating, limestone-ridged farmland—we would willingly kill in support of causes that were not only indefensible but had little to do with our lives.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Once again he thought he smelled an odor of chrysanthemums or leakage from a gas well on the wind, or perhaps it was lichen or toadstools, the kind that grew carpetlike inside perennial shade, often on graves.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • It was only in their aftermath that we discovered how many of our own countrymen—who spoke the same language and practiced the same religion and lived on the same carpetlike, green, undulating, limestone-ridged farmland—we would willingly kill in support of causes that were not only indefensible but had little to do with our lives.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Once again he thought he smelled an odor of chrysanthemums or leakage from a gas well on the wind, or perhaps it was lichen or toadstools, the kind that grew carpetlike inside perennial shade, often on graves.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Take the Hottentot fig. Known for its profusion of pink and yellow flowers, this carpetlike succulent plant spread only modestly in the decades since its arrival in the U.K. from South Africa more than a century ago, held in check by the cooler climate of the British Isles.

    Attack Of the Aliens 2007

  • The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: New Legends - Greg Bear Blue Tyson 2007

  • The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction - Mike Ashley Blue Tyson 2007

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