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    1. When he heard the thunder get continuously louder, he rolled up the kitchen mat and braved the snow outside


    2. This flea trap also catches roaches on its sticky mat


    3. I suggest that you add a small wad of peanut butter in the middle of the sticky mat


    4. Replace sticky mat when roaches are stuck on it


    5. In my rush to get to it before it stops, starkers except for a towel round my hair, I nearly trip up on the bath mat


    6. At first they couldn't think of a surface to mat it on, but finally Alan remembered the potshard


    7. Lie face downwards on your mat with your chin on the


    8. We had spread a mat on the shop's floor


    9. knees in the middle of this loathsome, writhing mat of warm,


    10. crumbs, look at those prices! You couldn't get a door mat for that these days! So Danvers sold furniture

    11. Promise me? If it goes there, do it on my mat


    12. You on the sofa, me on Cordra’s mat


    13. The football boys have gone home with team bonds much as they ever were, but Leona’s new sound engineering protégé has a beer mat with a phone number tucked into his trouser pocket


    14. There is no bath mat


    15. “Do you think that’ll mat?” Yorthops asked


    16. Sillick Farm has been a place of ghosts for too long for there to be a welcome on the door mat


    17. When I get home, I find an envelope lying on the mat


    18. She pulled enough thesh for two fatties and wet it down to mat it


    19. It could be that his parents didn’t know how to mat a good wrap and he was used to brittle ones? Or maybe the upland thesh didn’t hold?


    20. Each girl took a corner of the large mat surface and with a few bounding steps, executed front handsprings into forward airborne somersaults

    21. Using Alan’s sleeping mat as a pack, she started the slink back to town


    22. Kaitlyn was already standing at the edge of the mat off to the side and dressed in the same manner as my dearest


    23. Chloe took a stance opposite her on the other side of the mat


    24. 'Harold, would you stand there and prepare to loose this arrow?' He handed me the bow and I took a position at the far edge of the mat we were all now surrounding


    25. Not at the end of the mat where he was a split second before when I loosed the arrow, but in the middle of the mat balancing the arrow idly in his outstretched finger, with a ribbon dangling from either end of it, and the ladies' hair was at that moment just falling to their shoulders as I watched


    26. " This was brought, and she spread her mat in the courtyard, placed the food in order, donned the dress, and so made all preliminary arrangements


    27. Through the greater part of Europe, a kitchen garden is not at present supposed to deserve a better inclosure than mat recommended by Columella


    28. She let her halo fall, and calmly sat on the straw mat, waiting


    29. He snapped off the eye patch, folded up his mat


    30. Saying nothing, Aspen approached Sebastian, who was still on the training mat

    31. She went down on her back on the mat, shock crossing over her face momentarily before delight set in


    32. His leg was in between hers, positioning his body over hers on the mat


    33. Sebastian’s head bounced off of the mat while his body responded violently to the weight of her on his chest


    34. She slipped her fingers into the hair at the nape of his neck, her fingers plunging into the curly masses, which were fanned across the mat


    35. Yanking her clothing off, he sank his fingers into her as she clawed at the mat on the floor


    36. Also, there was a bed, a TV, a small refrigerator and a mat for the dog behind the seat


    37. As I took Keela out of her chair and laid her gently on the picnic mat, I told her all about the tower clock and how it always made me feel sane amongst all the confusion in my life


    38. Powell put his hand straight out, in a widely stretched V-sign, palm perpendicular to the mat


    39. He reached into his small sack and with little effort produced a small circular pendant, a thin slice of white marble or porcelain cast around a black mat surface, smooth and cold to the touch


    40. The horizon was almost incapable of containing its view, an immaculate black mat wall with the appearance of obsidian

    41. A mat on the floor appeared to be intended to provide additional sleeping accommodations


    42. “Yeah, I use it as a meditation mat at sunrise every morning


    43. Although the legal age limit for alcohol was twenty-one at the time, that didn't faze bar staff serving any young bloke that placed their money on the bar mat


    44. The spider lays out her welcome mat for unsuspecting visitors and the forest teams with life, cackling away in the myriad languages of nature


    45. Therefore “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole mat er, fear


    46. with a family of seven, $200 can disappear in a mat er of minutes! Would


    47. scripture even speaks to the mat er of what is given in alms (money


    48. it is the church’s duty to handle such mat ers


    49. mat ed radio station as one of their two stations, and were therefore


    50. came in, but it rose at least six inches in a mat er of minutes, drenching the


































    1. · Use non-slip mats in the bathtub and on shower floors


    2. Neat, clean tatami mats line the floors


    3. The mats on the square side of the inn's main room were up, making the plaza almost part of the room


    4. When it was light they rolled up the mats and their cabin was a resort on the river


    5. Thick pads of straw woven into long mats had been placed about the fire pit and piled high off the ground


    6. Tightly hand woven mats were placed on this straw and then their bedding was placed on top of the mats


    7. ’ He replied fiddling with the beer mats on the table


    8. He kept the mats down more often and had lots of old blankets scattered around and let the klizhorns roost as they pleased


    9. A bottle of brandy and a half full tumbler are on one of the yellow Royal Doulton place mats


    10. He ran up all his mats for the light of the week, the dawn light illuminated understated wall hangings of story-knots, replicas of 4th century Thulian work

    11. The ladies were on tumbling mats at the far end when he entered and they called him over to them


    12. Between them were mats of thick ribbonleaves that grew sprays of peas and beans without the pod


    13. Out here the first houses were mostly saplings helped out with some plank floors, a few foundation stones, some canvas roofs and a lot of roll mats


    14. Well, Harry was standing in the middle of the training mats holding in his hands a bow and one arrow


    15. All the mats were rolled up so that was a dead give away to all of HakenCourt that there was a party going on


    16. Quite a few others from around the court heard it and saw where it was because the lanterns were lit, the mats were rolled tight and the balconies were filled with people


    17. There were grilles that rolled down instead of mats


    18. They went to let down the mats on their way to bed


    19. baskets, then lay them out on mats woven of straw


    20. I continued to wash her skin and what I could of her clothes as Joss worked out the mats and tangles in her hair

    21. Joseph stood, picked up the mats and retied everything to the back of the donkey as Jesus watched


    22. Cloth napkins that had the good silver wrapped within, the plates were her best, sitting on hand made lace place mats


    23. We stood in a large courtyard just inside, with spacious thatched alcoves opening all round, in which a couple of hundred slaves and attendants lay in silent rows, resting on their mats


    24. At that exact moment a nurse came into the room to straighten up the exercise mats or something and he felt kind of rude about that


    25. Leaving it, she moved to the next, which she jerked open with such violence that it came free in her hand, spilling place mats onto the floor


    26. Extensive mats of uprooted vegetation could have lodged in different places that, in turn, would have been covered over by the eroded rock ground to silt as an end result of this overwhelming disturbance of a geologic status quo


    27. He saw that most of the refugees had remained; a few pregnant mothers shared tents with some large families, while the rest simply slept on the ground, sharing thin blankets, mats, rugs and pillows


    28. Starting with the paintings and books I’d brought from Canada, I added natural materials readily available: grasses in pots, driftwood I’d collected, beautiful stones, cane furniture and African grass mats bought for next to nothing by the roadside


    29. Tris, Caleb, Christina, and I are in the training room in the GD area underground—it’s cold and dim and full of equipment, training weapons and mats and helmets and targets, everything we could ever need


    30. Their houses were large dome-shaped structures made of poles driven into the ground, bent, and bound together at the top with sticks extended between the poles and reed mats or thatch fastened over them

    31. Mats were also used to provide some privacy inside


    32. Their houses were square and made of reed mats on a framework of poles


    33. There were mats of woven bark that served as the door and as furniture


    34. The Cayapo were naked except for the sheath like the Borum, but they also used a wide variety of labrets in their lower lip, wore sashes, cords, feathers, tassels, shells, armlets, and even small mats on their backs


    35. The bark was sewn into mats and tied to the pole frame


    36. Moshe became aware of five other men seated on mats ranged in a semicircle


    37. The vendors, mainly women dressed in thin black trousers and white blouses, squatted on mats next to their wares patiently waiting for the sales they knew would come


    38. The Chief's house was decorated with flower garlands and woven mats of


    39. Some didn’t have enough beds; many times the children had to sleep on mats on the floor


    40. Open doors showed bare rooms with old men sleeping on mats, women squatting over a primus, their kids playing

    41. He looked at one of the monitors that he had in the cotton club and saw the so called brother laid on of the floor mats after just enjoying a much needed hit


    42. Having, as always, refused the use of Vassals, they repacked their clothes, jewellery, mats and control box in the trolley, then dropped to their apartment where they carefully checked and stored everything safely


    43. Each stepped onto a mat, whispered into the terminal, touched their wrists and reappeared on the mats twenty metres away looking excited and aroused


    44. ‘What about terminals? Mats and implants aren’t any use if there’s nothing to give instructions to!’


    45. Peteru and Uretep took their chance while the Mages were still in a good mood to ensure they still had permission to visit the new city to check for possible problems installing the next set of mats


    46. ‘And I suggest you immediately begin the assembly of another set of mats and terminals for New Oasis


    47. There are mats everywhere, screens that show maps and numbers and those terminals to speak into


    48. The Vassal’s mats would be completed within the day


    49. Uretep placed two mats at one end of the room and a second pair at the other, a good twenty metres away


    50. Then he and Peteru stood on the mats, whispered a number into their terminals, touched their wrists and before their cloaks and tunics hit the ground they were standing on the mats at the other end














































    1. hear snorts and snuffles, the sounds of night creatures in thick, matted undergrowth


    2. thick and matted, whisper through


    3. It's fur was all matted and full of bugs and algae


    4. His hair was matted, and his clothes reeked


    5. Oreo was covered in blood, matted to her fur


    6. Michael looked at Tabs and Ash, realization dawning on him as he saw they too were matted with blood


    7. matted and bloody, glad to be home


    8. Her hair, which is shoulder length and mousy brown, is matted and dishevelled


    9. twelve, fresh cheeked, with the matted sweat-


    10. The car lurches and stalls as Billy's foot slips off the clutch, its bonnet buried in a thickly matted wall of hawthorn and beech

    11. He looked like warmed over death, his eyes were sunk deep into his unshaven face, and his hair matted to his head


    12. Insects crawled through the man's matted hair


    13. rags tied about his body, and his hair was matted into a


    14. Her hair matted to her face


    15. bearded man with greasy, matted hair)


    16. Her eye was nearly closed, black blood crusted her thick lips, and her hair was densely matted


    17. He was dressed in a matted robe of wool


    18. Renegade strands of her long black hair matted with dirt and drying blood suddenly whipped around much more quickly


    19. He was a large hairy fellow and the beer matted the hair on his body and made him look like a drowned ape


    20. Terese was leaning over her to brush her damp, matted hair from her brow, whispering to her that she was safe

    21. The material snagged on his matted wounds and rubbed against the tender cuts


    22. A deep slit to her waist that was matted with blood


    23. On the table before him was a short-bladed knife, sharp, coated in thick, matted blood


    24. Two cats slid through the garden fence, both bearing the marks of matted fur where the big male had bitten their necks during mating


    25. He shook his coat, choking on the dust that rose from his matted fur


    26. The front of the ivory linen jacket she had lent her was torn and stained by trails of it, and more matted her hair against the left side of her head while a steady drip fell from her elbow


    27. Her spine, her back, matted in gray fur


    28. Matted hair covered numerous wounds and welts all about his


    29. The eyebrows, usually thin wisps of white fuzz, were now dark brown and thickly matted


    30. There was a bit of blood in her matted hair

    31. All three were filthy with matted blood


    32. He wore his hair very long and it appeared matted as if it had not been washed in some time


    33. auburn hair matted to her freckled face, almost hiding the thin


    34. mirrors, his hair matted to his head with sweat and grime


    35. torrent of rain, mopping the matted spikes of hair his from his


    36. “You guys okay?” Cloud croaked, brushing the matted spikes


    37. She stood by the short stump of a tree, in that same blue frock, with her matted gray hair dangling like seaweed over her face


    38. caressed thick lumps of matted hair; he could not have been


    39. His white hair was long and matted as was his beard


    40. Fleas and mites have eaten away most of his fur, and the remaining tufts are matted with filth and dried blood

    41. looking about eight years old with long black hair, wet and matted,


    42. her knees and buried her face in the dogs matted and dirty fur


    43. Her own blood matted her hair and made her clothes stick to her body; she looked up as his shadow moved over her


    44. Travers had a wide mouth and light red hair, slightly longer than the regs prescribed, now sweaty and matted


    45. " The broad smile on Travers's face didn't mask his exhausted appearance; his red hair was dirty and matted to his head, and he had dark rings under his eyes


    46. Upright, his hair is more matted than the Lammas Lord first realised and there is madness there also, something fluid and uncontrollable about his expression


    47. The old man groaned and rubbed one hand through his grey matted hair


    48. They were incredibly dirty, their hair matted with God knows what


    49. The blow did little else other than knock the thick matted snow from Corvus’s beard


    50. I saw that there was some blood matted in her long, black obsidian looking hair













































    1. He had soon coaxed the stalks into the warming water and was matting them only a couple minutes later


    2. He could feel the dried blood matting his fur, the long jagged cut left by the rock


    3. All would wave and shout greetings to our boat as we glided by them on stiff sails, made of bamboo battens with matting stretched between them


    4. Rugs and matting, green and gold, covered the floor and provided the only splash of colour, while a simple bed-area filled the opposite corner


    5. The straw matting under his feet scratched at his toes, and he took two or three steps forward to where the rugs started


    6. In a few seconds Pierce arrived with a section of matting, and Swann moved Lachey onto it


    7. Brush your cat when necessary to prevent matting


    8. From time to time traders from the coastal lowlands would arrive with such exotic goods as cotton, coffee beans, rubber for the balls used in the hoop game, cacao, vanilla, slateback mirrors and feathers of every colour imaginable, pottery with strange colourful designs delicately worked by some foreign tradesman, small intricately worked statues of the whole pantheon of the gods, and sometimes traders from the far mountains to the south would arrive with long necked animals laden with unattainable treasures, all of these wonders were laid out on matting and the whole square was taken up by these vendors, it was a splendid and exciting sight for a youngster to listen to the haggling over every conceivable commodity, the noise mixed with the varicoloured goods and clothing, the exotic accents of people from a dozen different tribes had a young boy’s mind in a permanent spin


    9. from the nearest tree with blood matting their hides


    10. Its floor was shiny with yellow paint, and to meet the difficulty of the paint being spoiled if people walked on it and that other difficulty of a floor being the only place you can walk on, strips of cocoanut matting were laid across it from one important point to another

    11. I stood staring at the puddles my clothes and umbrella was forming on the strip of matting, vainly trying to rub them out with my feet


    12. All of this was perched upon a thick matting of sawdust


    13. They were lying on straw matting beds and covered by light squares of green material


    14. The plastic matting masquerading as an egg together with synthetic cardboard, which roughly translated means sausage, and fried potato in batter, which for reasons best left to the marketing men is called a hash-brown


    15. In the interim, look for a fashionable frame; and in some cases material for matting, and you have a gift which is uniquely original


    16. The floor of this prison lay hidden beneath thick, hempen matting that deadened the sound of footsteps


    17. ‘Run along, run along to Mariette,’ she said to Seryozha, who had followed her out, and she began walking up and down on the straw matting of the terrace


    18. Casaubon did not say, "I wish to be alone," but he directed his steps in silence towards the house, and as they entered by the glass door on this eastern side, Dorothea withdrew her arm and lingered on the matting, that she might leave her husband quite free


    19. From photographs, it appears that he was affected with Plica neuropathica, which causes matting of the hair


    20. Look here, put it under the bast matting and cover it with hay- that’s the way!’

    21. One was, in fact, in a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean upon, bearing a tablet of black wood


    22. Rochester’s displeasure by disobeying his orders, when the light once more gleamed dimly on the gallery wall, and I heard his unshod feet tread the matting


    23. He had left behind his violin, for he identified it too closely with his misfortune, but his mother had obliged him to take his petate, a very popular and practical bedroll, with its pillow, sheet, small pewter chamber pot, and mosquito netting, all of this wrapped in straw matting tied with two hemp ropes for hanging a hammock in an emergency


    24. "Run along, run along to Mariette," she said to Seryozha, who had followed her out, and she began walking up and down on the straw matting of the terrace


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    Synonyms for "mat"

    mat gym mat matting raft raft foundation flatness lusterlessness lustrelessness matt matte master of arts in teaching felt felt up mat up matt-up matte up entangle snarl tangle flat matted twine twist weave braid floor covering doormat pad rug

    "mat" definitions

    a thick flat pad used as a floor covering


    mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture


    sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports


    a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven


    a master's degree in teaching


    the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss


    a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete


    a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it


    twist together or entwine into a confusing mass


    change texture so as to become matted and felt-like


    not reflecting light; not glossy