tile - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • peg: Most of the fabrics are typical York products and probably belong to peg tile, rather than nib.
  • glaze: The tunnel is lined with 200,000 glazed white tiles.

Object

  • hearth: Feature brick fireplace and tiled hearth and fitted with a living flame gas fire.
  • floor: Tiled floors apart from the wooden boarding beneath the choir stalls.
  • splash: Shower Room: With shower cubicle having sliding door, hand basin with tiled splash back, strip light, shaver socket.
  • roof: Red brick built with a tiled roof in a nice area with a garden shed.

Adjective modifier

  • ceramic: Ceramic tiles to three walls, obscure double glazed window to rear, radiator.
  • encaustic: Galleries display delicate examples of encaustic tiles, from single, rather plain, patterns, to vast wall panels.
  • plain: Where the method of suspension was no intact tiles were defined as plain tiles.

Modifies a noun

  • adhesive: Will the heat affect the tile adhesive or tiles?
  • grout: When fully dry, grout the mosaic with tile grout.
  • flooring: There is a well equipped kitchen/dining room with original beams and quarry tile flooring.

Noun used with modifier

  • terracotta: Once a single house, now used as two, with terracotta tiles in both gables.
  • clay: The students made their own clay tiles in response to the Reading Abbey tiles.
  • ridge: Roof: slate roofs with plain reconstituted clay ridge tiles.
  • roof: He also raised concerns about imported clay roof tiles entering the UK around 10 per cent cheaper than domestic clay roof tiles.
  • roofing: This can be prevented by installing moisture barrier beneath the roofing tiles.
  • mosaic: The only touch of color can be found in the deep blue mosaic tiles in the walk in oval shower.

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