How to Use parquet in a Sentence

parquet

noun
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  • Hayward will step on the parquet again, whether in June or October, and the raid will be on.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • There was an oak parquet floor, and it had been restored and painted.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The old, imperious king of the parquet, Kyrie, is gone, long live the new king, Kemba.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • The two chatted for a bit on center court before McEnroe took a few shots on the parquet.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Smart writhed on the parquet in pain, the ESPN microphones picking up his wails.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
  • Some rooms have special features like a wooden Versailles parquet on the first floor or Parisian mansards on the top floor.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2019
  • That’s when Whiteside bolted for the real action on the parquet at the other end of Storrow Drive.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Other than Don Chaney, every Celtics guard who played more games than Smart has his number hanging over the parquet floor.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Hours before every game at the Garden, Bird and Joe Q could be found on the parquet for 20 minutes of perimeter shooting.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Some of the rooms have wallpaper and parquet flooring, which may not be desirable.
    — Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • There are 10 fireplaces, and, apart from in the kitchen and family room, all the quarter-sawn oak parquet flooring is original.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Karen's hair is almost unmussed, but blood streams from her eyes and nose and mouth, soaking into a ratty rug and a dingy parquet-floored hallway near the dog's bowl.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • All softened by a warm ivory color (Baby Fawn by Benjamin Moore) and parquet wood flooring.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Before every game at TD Garden during the postseason, for example, Tatum stood in the same spot on the parquet.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Elsewhere, antique Italian parquet floors salvaged from the clients’ former house and ceiling moldings add a touch of majesty.
    — ELLE Decor, 7 June 2023
  • Brown shook Grayson Allen so thoroughly on an 18-foot jumper in the first quarter that Allen staggered and his posterior ended up on the parquet.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2022
  • The interiors, designed by David Collins Studio, will have oak parquet floors with touches of marble parquet in the kitchen.
    — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The more intense competition had come hours earlier, on the same parquet floor at TD Garden.
    — Robert O’Connell, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • The second floor boasts beamed ceilings, blond parquet Russian Ipe wood floors, leaded-glass windows, and a wood-burning fireplace.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 31 May 2023
  • From the foyer, a long hallway with herringbone parquet flooring leads to a balcony overlooking the Eiffel Tower just across the Seine.
    — Nick Haramis Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The scene inside what should have been the living room at 4631 N. Seventh Ave. was the stuff of local legends with its crowded parquet dance floor inches from the live musicians throwing down.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Primary Bedroom Five hundred wood scraps make up the parquet flooring.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Replace the parquet with herringbone, the GE with Wolf, the popcorn ceilings with tailored plasterboard and recessed lighting?
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The décor is classic Louis XVI, from canopy beds to clawfoot tubs — plus, artisans were hired to recreate 18th-century design details, like the parquet flooring and the wall hangings.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
  • If the flagstones in the Long Room had been ripped up and replaced by parquet laid onto concrete 50 years ago, our idea was to add under-floor heating and a beautiful polished cement overlay that would have the feel and the warmth of flagstones.
    — Amanda Harlech, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Bird never did have the hops to transport himself from one piece of famed parquet to another, but that didn’t stop Pitino from selling the kind of grandiloquence that epitomized the too-good-to-be-true verbiage and essence of the college game.
    — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The smart space is a relaxing spot to sip Champagne or cocktails crafted at the original leather bar while surrounded by parquet flooring, comfy club chairs, and live piano.
    — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Also miraculous: 11-foot-high ceilings, Monticello-style parquet floors, and a key to Gramercy Park.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Ceiling medallions, columns, paneled walls, splashes of marble and parquet and herringbone floors are among details found throughout the four-story floor plan.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Its 192 rooms will feature rustic parquet flooring, local stone, and classic mid-century Italian design.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2024

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