Pupils perched their Bunsen burners on asbestos mats

Evacuees generally sleep on plastic mats over concrete flooring.

It is woven to make mats that are used for meditation.

There will be no seats on the bus there will be mats to sit on the floor

Up and down the country, in myriad chemistry lessons, pupils have perched their Bunsen burners on asbestos mats.

At the Bangkok Shutdown thousands of people have occupied various busy parts of Bangkok, complete with tents and sleeping mats.

When they arrived, brown domes made of crisscrossed branches and layers of multicolored mats would appear like crowds of dappled beetles on the outskirts of town.

The Sargasso provides spawning and nursery habitat for scores of species, including endangered American and European eels, which travel thousands of miles from rivers and streams to spawn in the itinerant mats of vegetation.

The kids will sit on the mats and will watch cartoons or educational programs from a projector they will read books play with each other and will make a lot of noise Three days before police arrested four organisers of this school.

Sviyazhsky's study was an enormous room lined with book cupboards. There were two tables in it, one a massive writing table, the other a round one on which lay a number of newspapers and journals in different languages, arranged as if they were mats round the lamp in the centre.

The golden glitter on the crimson background of the iconostasis, the gilt ornaments of the icons, the silver of the chandeliers and candlesticks, the flagstones of the floor, the mats, the banners above the choir, the steps of the ambo, the ancient books black with age, the cassocks and surplices, were all inundated with light.