junk jewelry

Example Sentences

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Pitchmen, happily tracing their ancestry back to the ancient Phoenician traders who once unloaded junk jewelry on Greek housewives, have not changed much in the past few thousand years.

From Time Magazine Archive

In peacetime they concentrated on gadgets�cigaret boxes, desk sets, junk jewelry, garden furniture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Profits from their wine-selling evaporated like sea water in a hot wind—going for junk jewelry for Hagar, Reba’s gifts to men, and he didn’t know what all.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

It was April who got the idea of going around the apartment house and asking all the ladies if they had any old junk jewelry that they were willing to sell.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Everybody, horn-detail, armed guard and all, got one ten-inch bowie knife and sheath, a red bandanna neckcloth, and a piece of flashy junk jewelry.

From Naudsonce by Piper, H. Beam