1
: covering the entire floor
wall-to-wall carpeting
2
a
: covering or filling one entire space or time
a party crammed with wall-to-wall bodies
b
: occurring or found everywhere : ubiquitous

Examples of wall-to-wall in a Sentence

television programming feels as if there are wall-to-wall sitcoms these days
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The airy space has a vaulted ceiling with red, green and blue stained glass windows, and there is wall-to-wall red carpet. Buffy Gorrilla, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025 Runners placed on carpet keep the nap of your wall-to-wall carpet from getting trampled down in the same places over and over. Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025 Out of a day that saw cable news and broadcast TV almost wall-to-wall on what happened at the White House, Maher had a real advantage by recording his opening monologue on Friday afternoon. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2025 This year’s biggest weekend of sports action and entertainment begins Thursday, March 20 with the opening four days of wall-to-wall basketball and March Madness. Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wall-to-wall

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of wall-to-wall was in 1946

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“Wall-to-wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall-to-wall. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

wall-to-wall

adjective
1
: covering the entire floor
wall-to-wall carpeting
2
: filling an entire space
a beach that was wall-to-wall sunbathers

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