RUG in a Sentence

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For RUG, below is one of 117 sentences:
It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rug
 n.  a piece of thick heavy cloth smaller than a carpet, used for covering the floor
 n.  a soft cover that keeps you warm or comfortable
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  Her heart turned cold when she saw Kitty sitting on a low chair near the door, her eyes fixed immovably on a corner of the rug.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
2  He sat down, tucked the tiger-skin rug round him, and lighted a cigar.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
3  And pulling up the rug he flung himself back on the pillow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 20
4  Not far from her they were taking the rug off the lop-eared Gladiator.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
5  All that was left was a woman with short legs, who lay down because she had a bad figure, and worried patient Varenka for not arranging her rug to her liking.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
6  The door opened, and the hall porter with a rug on his arm called the carriage.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 2
7  Vronsky saw him without looking round get into the carriage, pick up the rug and the opera-glass at the window and disappear.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 2
8  Alexey Alexandrovitch unfolded the rug in which his frozen feet were wrapped, and getting out of his carriage made his way over the snow to Darya Alexandrovna.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 6
9  He did not recognize his room, looking up from the ground, at the bent legs of the table, at the wastepaper basket, and the tiger-skin rug.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 18
10  He made an effort at thought, and was aware that he was on the floor; and seeing blood on the tiger-skin rug and on his arm, he knew he had shot himself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 18
11  As he walked over the soft rug towards the door, he could not help overhearing a conversation he did not want to hear.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
12  Well, we shall see which of them will step on the rug first.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 5
13  Oh, I stepped on the rug before Vassily on purpose.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 5
14  There was no dust visible anywhere, a rug was laid by the bedside.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 18
15  Seryozha, with radiant eyes and smiles, holding his mother by one hand and his nurse by the other, pattered on the rug with his fat little bare feet.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 30
Example Sentence:
1  It will be more beautiful if you work some blue into the rug.
2  The blue rug has faded over years.
3  The path to glory is always rugged.
4  The countryside around here is very rugged.
5  It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.
6  From the lowlands of the south to the rugged peaks in the north, Derbyshire has something for everyone.
7  At last he passed the rugged competitive examination.
8  Chinese rugs are graded according to the fineness of their knotting.
9  I love the living room, with its dark woodwork, oriental rugs, and chunky furniture.
10  The floor was overlaid with rugs of oriental design.