How to Use linoleum in a Sentence

linoleum

noun
  • This will help prolong the life of your linoleum floors.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This will help prolong the life of your linoleum floors.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Sloane spun around, her feet tacky on the linoleum, and swiped with the knife.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Great bright globs of gore, falling splat-splat on the linoleum.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • There were holes in the linoleum floor and in the walls in the living room.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Why is my linoleum floor still dirty after mopping?
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Why is my linoleum floor still dirty after mopping?
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Loud, stripe-y linoleum flooring brings in the zip Camille craved.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Dogs skidding across linoleum kitchen floors are good for business.
    — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
  • Would some good old-fashioned linoleum flooring help calm one down?
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • It is rumored, if spilled, to melt the linoleum on a clinic floor.
    — Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Her couch was soaked in blood, and specks of blood dotted the apartment's linoleum floor.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Typically, vinyl and linoleum floors do well with a steam mop.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The cheap linoleum and lack of a greeter had no bearing on the quality of care.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 29 June 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
  • That damp living room turned out to have a stream running beneath its linoleum floor.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Some of Stokes' windows are cracked, and the kitchen linoleum is peeling.
    — Aaron Glantz, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Ceiling tiles and linoleum had been plastered over the structure's old bones.
    — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 10 May 2018
  • 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 homes of my childhood were covered with linoleum, tile and carpet, from berber to shag.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The one-room salon with green linoleum floors had one bathroom and a small room for the water heater.
    — Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Marlboros crushed into linoleum.
    — Brenda Hillman, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The fluorescent lights in the ceiling bore down on dirty linoleum floors.
    — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 5 July 2022
  • The easiest fix to hide ugly tile or linoleum is to put down a rug, Cooney says.
    — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
  • Still, the linoleum tiles in the kitchen have long since disappeared under layers of filth.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • 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

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