Wall-to-wall

In hotels, it's customary to install wall-to-wall carpeting.

Hotels usually install wall-to-wall carpeting.

Everything you need to leaf through a good book: a big, fluffy bed, snug armchair, and, of course, a wall-to-wall selection of reading material.

The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.

We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs.

The airport was wall-to-wall with impatient passengers.

The main ballroom at the exclusive Pacific Club in Newport Beach was wall to wall with lawyers, judges, and politicians last December as the law school at the University of California, Irvine—the first public law school launched in California in more than 40 years—hosted a coming-out party for its first dean.