furniture
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Synonyms
appointments, cabinetwork, furnishings, movables (or moveables)
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The car had been kept in a corner of the carbarn gathering dust like an old piece of furniture in the back of someone’s basement. — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, "World’s oldest operating cable car rolling back to life this weekend," 7 Sep. 2019 If there were an Emmy for creating drama in a comedy, this piece of furniture would be a winner. — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, "Our definitive ranking of TV-show furniture, from the 'Friends' couch to the Iron Throne," 4 Sep. 2019 Maintainance of furniture is the crux of this business. — Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, "A former Indian Goldman Sachs executive is building the “Netflix of furniture”," 29 Aug. 2019 The room had numerous windows as well as a wooden table and other decorative pieces of furniture, meaning the potential explosion would be significantly reduced as the energy of the blast would be absorbed and dissipated. — Albinko Hasic, Time, "A Group of German Leaders Tried to Kill Hitler in 1944. Here’s Why They Failed," 19 July 2019 According to a letter signed by almost 550 employees, Wayfair has sold $200,000 worth of furniture to a nonprofit organization called BCFS. — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, "Wayfair employees protest alleged sale of furniture for border detention facility," 27 June 2019 Wayfair, a fast-growing online seller of furniture, declined to comment. — Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, "Wayfair Workers Stage Walkout Over Sales to Border Camps," 26 June 2019 Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out Wednesday to protest the company’s decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas. — Alexandra Olson, Fortune, "Wayfair Employees Walked Out to Protest Furniture Sale to Detention Center for Migrant Children," 26 June 2019 What pet owner hasn’t pulled out an appliance (or moved a piece of furniture) to discover pet hair clumped underneath or behind it. — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, "Pet hair gets under the fridge, too," 14 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'furniture.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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