Stiff floor covering

Usage examples of linoleum.

Her head remained bowed, looking down at the linoleum floor of the interview room in Cheltenham police station.

Frau Kettleman walked across the room to the bathroom door, the water-logged linoleum slick beneath her shoes.

He had stopped on this patch of linoleum, considering for a moment the large holes at the corners of the lighter rectangle shape, holes where the kingbolts which held the projector firmly in place had once gone.

Toe tapping the chipped linoleum, he pushed the basket and beer mugs aside and went for broke.

The long hallway down the center of the building opened to room after room of seafoam green walls, institutional gray linoleum tile floors, and rickety old beds that squeaked every time the side rails were raised or lowered.

There was a shelflike cot arrangement, and a toilet, and a floor with speckled linoleum, so much like the linoleum in Langhorne Memorial Hospital that I wondered if the same contractor had installed both.

We the doctors move between ceiling and floor, between striplight and the croak of linoleum.

The countertops were covered with linoleum, rimmed with a band of metal where a line of dark gray grunge had collected.

The linoleum had a yellow-and-white square pattern, and white miniblinds covered the two windows.

Back in the 1950s a test on living in an enclosed environment had ended early because the floor covering, some sort of linoleum, turned out to be outgassing some really toxic stuff and everybody in the experiment got sick.

Yes of course, I say, stroking my cowering beast who is shedding violently and leaving big sweaty pawprints on the linoleum surface of the examining table.

But he had remembered when he was a child: His mother had cooked him a hearty breakfast, in the old kitchen with the linoleum that curled at the corners and the oak table with the placemats that looked like woven straw but were really plastic.

The walls of the latter had not been repapered for years, and the floors were covered with odd scraps of linoleum.

Wet shoes squishing and squeaking on the linoleum, she was past him before he realized she actually was going to his left.

On scuffed linoleum floors staffers crowded around a metal speaker, listening in almost disbelief to the deep voice, the crystal-clear words.