How to Use wallpaper in a Sentence

wallpaper

1 of 2 noun
  • The wallpaper began to peel.
  • Over the years, wallpaper has been all the rage.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Then peel-and-stick wallpaper is your best friend.
    — Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Settled on a jazzy new wallpaper for a room in your home?
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This will make your tiles look like one seamless strip of wallpaper.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2026
  • An accent wall of wallpaper adds depth to the room.
    — Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Now the clouds are lifting, the wallpaper is rolling back in waves.
    — Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The wallpaper is easy to apply to door fronts and will hide cracked wood.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026
  • This cool-toned red pops against the sky blue wallpaper for a layered and bold look.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Peel and stick wallpaper can often be reused.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Peel-and-stick wallpaper is best applied to smooth, clean walls.
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There’s even vinyl wallpaper in the photo booth.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Palmy wallpaper from Cole & Son perks up a hall.
    — Gary Thompson, Midwest Living, 5 June 2026
  • If salmon-pink walls or floral-print wallpaper is your thing, maybe this is the home for you.
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Paint the beams or wallpaper the ceiling.
    — Eleni N. Gage, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2026
  • Paint or wallpaper the shelves or choose shelving that comes in color.
    — Kelley Bruss, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Peel-and-stick wallpaper is the no-fuss way of redoing your walls.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Then, press down to release the air trapped inside and smooth the wallpaper.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
  • To get the house safe, cover the arsenic/lead wallpaper, build a new roof etc.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
  • There are two methods in which wallpaper can be applied.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Plus, the best peel-and-stick wallpaper, tiles and decor to give that can give a space a fall refresh.
    — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Breakfast is served buffet style, in a small room with quirky vase-print wallpaper.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Or they were painted on wallpaper.
    — Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
  • There are also a lot of perks to peel-and-stick wallpaper for homeowners too.
    — Emma Phelps, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Painting the wallpaper was super easy and the paint rolled right on with a standard roller brush.
    — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Each room in the house is named after a type of heron, complete with custom wallpaper.
    — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 10 June 2026
  • Campbell topped the treatment with a bold wallpaper.
    — Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2026
  • Do keep in mind that lighter wallpaper will make the space look larger, however.
    — Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 27 May 2026
  • Starting in a small section at the top of a wall, wipe the wallpaper using up-and-down strokes.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Mural wallpaper combines the best of both worlds.
    — Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 1 June 2026

wallpaper

2 of 2 verb
  • Get ready for these lines to wallpaper social media posts for months to come.
    — William Earl, Variety, 29 July 2022
  • When the walls aren’t painted at all, but rather wallpapered, trim still shouldn’t be overlooked.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Bonus points were earned for wallpapering the ceiling, too.
    — Allison Duncan, Vogue, 29 May 2026
  • More colour schemes available for matching third party apps to wallpaper. Multi-language support that allows different languages for different apps.
    — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And don't hold back on your design ideas with this light; paint the ceiling a pop of color or wallpaper the entire space around it.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
  • One of the chambers is even wallpapered to look exactly like Cathy’s skin, down to the freckles.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Henry had wallpapered it with pages from the Wall Street Journal.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 6 June 2017
  • Turn your dresser into a bright accent piece, wallpaper your closet door, or build a new cozy bench with an Ikea hack.
    — Stefanie Groner, Glamour, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The gala dinner was set in a not-in-use gallery that was wallpapered with party pics of yore (many of the smiles belonged to faces in the room that very night).
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2019
  • There is much here that will be cut up and spliced across the Internet, and wallpapered onto social media.
    — Vogue, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Several of the rooms, including the kitchen, are wallpapered.
    — Mike Powell, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • An archway in the dining room is wallpapered in Lions season tickets.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2018
  • Her lively, graphic, and colorful patterns can now be found on everything from gift bags to wallpaper to throw pillows.
    — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 12 June 2020
  • Rooms were effectively just wallpapered with old master paintings.
    — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2019
  • One bathroom is wallpapered in old New Yorker covers, and most of the kitchen counters are white laminate.
    — Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Actually wallpapering a rental is a no-no, but there are many removable alternatives that are just as stylish.
    — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 13 Oct. 2015
  • This can include installing shiplap, beadboard, or picture frame molding, versus painting or wallpapering just one wall.
    — Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Kitchens, open-concept spaces, and single walls are also probably not worth wallpapering.
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Steve Fisher has earned enough accolades over his four-decade coaching career to decorate and wallpaper a locker room or two.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
  • The eyes are quickly magnetized by dense blue sapphire waves wallpapered high, and Thunberg—arms crossed, eyes alight—is peeking from backstage.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The interior is wallpapered with pages from a French history book, as if to lend the bird never-ending hours of reading pleasure.
    — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Walls are painted or wallpapered, plumbing and electrical fixtures like faucets and light switch covers are installed, and register covers are put in place.
    — Brett Martin, House Beautiful, 26 Dec. 2018
  • According to a wall text, Smith’s own library is wallpapered with such snakes, and rooms in Smith’s house frequently appear in his artworks.
    — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
  • Add a designer touch by painting the inside of the open cabinet with an accent color, wallpapering behind the shelves, or adding fabric.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The castle is wallpapered with misty medieval themes, many from the operas of Ludwig's friend, Richard Wagner.
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
  • As a result, the whiplash-inducing pace of change can wallpaper over generational trauma, experts say, which resurfaces when an event that seems preventable occurs.
    — Soo Youn, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • And who would want the cozy maximalism of Plum Sykes’s William Morris wallpapers to be disrupted by such a thing?
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2017
  • For the first time, the hallways at Hueytown Elementary School are wallpapered with black history.
    — al, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Last year the Khalifas moved out for a week; in that short time, their contractor wallpapered the hall and kitchen and, in a late-breaking decision, painted the living room that deep brown.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 15 Feb. 2023
  • While managing the coat check at Trix, a theater district gay bar, his boss paid him to wallpaper the place with his erotic collages — possibly his first artistic commission.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020

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