How to Use linoleum in a Sentence

linoleum

noun

• There were holes in the linoleum floor and in the walls in the living room.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
• Sloane spun around, her feet tacky on the linoleum, and swiped with the knife.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• The uric acid cured the oil into what looked like linoleum.
  — Craig Taylor, Curbed, 23 Mar. 2021
• Yellow-and-white linoleum on the floor finish the look.
  — Katerina Ang, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
• Great bubbles of green linoleum rise from the kitchen floor.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
• Along the base of each was a stripe of the same checkerboard linoleum used on the dining room floor.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• Loud, stripe-y linoleum flooring brings in the zip Camille craved.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Agir Plus only has a staff car — and sleeps on the linoleum floor of her aunt’s straw shack.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• It is rumored, if spilled, to melt the linoleum on a clinic floor.
  — Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
• The cheap linoleum and lack of a greeter had no bearing on the quality of care.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Some of Stokes' windows are cracked, and the kitchen linoleum is peeling.
  — Aaron Glantz, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2018
• The linoleum floor of her room was covered in human waste.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2018
• In the case of the linoleum, the family saved for months to afford peel-and-stick tile for both rooms.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• In order to get to the wood, Yip had to tear out all of those layers of vinyl and linoleum by hand.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 17 Mar. 2017
• Her couch was soaked in blood, and specks of blood dotted the apartment's linoleum floor.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Just the tap of her heels on the kitchen linoleum sent my heart rate into rapid ascent.
  — Laura Zera, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• The vintage Armstrong linoleum floor makes the room look dark and cramped and is starting to peel.
  — Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2018
• The intricate hand-tooling on the linoleum is about 80 percent of the process.
  — Eric Dusenbery, al, 23 Dec. 2019
• The homes of my childhood were covered with linoleum, tile and carpet, from berber to shag.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022
• Peel off the backing and stick right atop the existing floor (linoleum, tiles, etc.).
  — Good Housekeeping, 6 Feb. 2012
• The painted linoleum in one nutshell had cracked and curled, in part, O’Connor thinks, because of the heat of the lightbulb above it.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2017
• The one-room salon with green linoleum floors had one bathroom and a small room for the water heater.
  — Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2021
• Riffe is a linoleum and woodcut relief block print artist.
  — Eric Dusenbery, al, 23 Dec. 2019
• Her floor is white linoleum with black and dark blue speckles, over which she's laid a dark blue area rug.
  — Amy Freeman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Dec. 2017
• Inside, the lobby looked clean but the flooring was made of cheap linoleum and the chairs looked slightly worn.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The easiest fix to hide ugly tile or linoleum is to put down a rug, Cooney says.
  — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• My bra’s cups keep slipping off my chest and shattering with a crash on the linoleum floor.
  — Hannah Wolansky, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
• The office looked like a DMV, with linoleum floors and snaking lines of people clutching forms in their sweaty hands.
  — Summer Block, Longreads, 23 Aug. 2019
• The other dancers, aged 11 to 16, sit cross-legged on the linoleum floor talking about social media.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 5 June 2024
• His kitchen had an old linoleum floor, a white countertop speckled with inky gold.
  — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024