appurtenance

Example Sentences

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There were, of course, millions of men with toothbrush mustaches, but the choice by a performer or politician to keep or to discard a symbolic appurtenance is never accidental.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2016

The actor is a bodybuilder with what seems to be an ancient helmet tattooed on his head, an armored appurtenance around his neck and stars over his nipples.

From Time • Sep. 13, 2012

Yet she says she feels more like her own person, not a presidential appurtenance, when she travels abroad with Reagan.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the works of genius, the children of the opulently thatched brain of creative art, have never been questioned as the appurtenance of polite splendor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two had a simultaneous birth, but it was an appurtenance of the latter that marked the distinction and gave the names.

From Atlantic Classics by Various