noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carpet slipper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bedroom
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They kissed her, one cheek each, and departed softly in their pink felt bedroom slippers .
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He is dressed in an immaculate suit, but he is wearing bedroom slippers .
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I don't think bedroom slippers are the footwear of lovers.
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Would Gay like the bedroom slippers she had sent her for Christmas?
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It floated down to the threadbare navy-blue carpet, some settling on the bedroom slippers she wore.
carpet
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An old man was out feeding the gulls in his carpet slippers .
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No more than five feet tall in her carpet slippers , you just knew it would be best not to cross her.
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Like a leather-clad spanking madam in fluffy carpet slippers , it's less threatening that way.
■ VERB
put
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Sitting on the side of the bed, he put on his slippers .
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At the entrance to the bathroom, I slipped off my regular slippers and put on woven straw slippers.
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Maggie acted, racing from her room and running to the stairs, not waiting to put on slippers or a robe.
wear
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This is alleviated by wearing slippers , and by the use of rugs either side of the bed.
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It was a Monday night, just past dinner, and he was wearing plaid slippers .
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He has come out into the road wearing slippers .
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He is dressed in an immaculate suit, but he is wearing bedroom slippers .
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She makes him wear slippers to save her carpet.
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She wore pert green velvet slippers and a lovely sea green robe.
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Do not wear slippers without any backs in them.
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She was wearing a housecoat and slippers .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was, like Aziz the janitor, definitely wearing one shoe and one slipper .
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I would lose my glass slipper .
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Ralph launched his slipper across the room.
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Richard took off his slippers and put on his black shoes again, and they went out.
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The king announced that whoever fit into the slipper would get to marry the prince.
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This detail would have been immediately obvious had the slipper been made of glass.
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What could I do with her slippers?