When the kids came out of the darkness onto the chalk-covered tiles surrounding the call box, Andromeda seemed ready to join them.

The tiles surrounding the bathtub were shattered, as well as the tub itself, which sat inside the tile base.

The ceramic tile surrounding the kachelofen also acts as insulation to retain heat.

Our coats were left on the hot tiles surrounding the central fire where they slowly steamed dry.

The tiles can be reversed, to switch colors, depending on the colors of the tiles surrounding them.

She wanted the vase to lift up and off, potter through the air in a slow-motion arc, sprinkle itself in tinkling bits on the glazed tiles surrounding the empty fireplace.

Round holes for tiles surrounding plumbing are easier to make.

The tiles immediately surrounding the city is known as the "outskirts".

The front of the four-story building was a mirror image of his own, its Art Deco facade displaying the same checkerboard pattern of glossy tiles surrounding a porthole window in the center.

The tiles surrounding Fonda empty into Big Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Raccoon River.