costume jewelry
Example Sentences
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After two years of mostly small exchanges — cookbook galleys, costume jewelry, a set of dinner plates with just the right heft — we brought home something that, improbably, shifted the cadence of our cooking.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025
Playing dress-up at her grandmother’s, where she’d deck herself to the nines in borrowed costume jewelry, she soon found out that what was encouraged by her open-minded family was derided in the outside world.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024
He worked a series of day jobs, including a 15-year stint as a costume jewelry designer.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022
Now, however, factories produced clothing, shoes, cookware, furniture, soap, toys, books, musical instruments, and costume jewelry in such quantities that they could be sold at prices the working class could afford.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
L. Einstein & Co. sold costume jewelry, and I worked there through the Christmas holidays and into the spring.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
