gewgaws
Example Sentences
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It was like a cupboard, crowded with old gewgaws and dust-coated knickknacks — the critic’s mind! — and, fool that I am, I couldn’t squeeze Katz into it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022
Batman and Superman gewgaws are on view to underscore that point.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
I actually screamed when Lisa showed up at Charlotte’s apartment in a rustic burlap sack covered in metal gewgaws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
We have babies and then we buy—blankets, strollers, a playpen, a high chair, gewgaws, and contraptions.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 24, 2019
No place in town had more gimcracks, doodads, and gewgaws crammed into less space in a more orderly fashion than Onofre’s spread.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
