knick-knacks

Example Sentences

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When you visit aging relatives, pull out your phone and record them going through old photo albums and telling the stories of the knick-knacks on their shelves.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025

The living room she sits in is filled with knick-knacks and family photos, amid a garish clash of of geometric beige wallpaper, turquoise walls and a patterned red carpet.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2024

He enjoys collecting vintage toy cars, coins, rocks, objects made of brass and other knick-knacks, according to his daughter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

There are knick-knacks to touch, poke, and otherwise interact with that look suspiciously like puzzles to solve.

From The Verge • Nov. 2, 2021

She is so altered from the woman I knew in the Capitol, stripped of the gaudy clothing, the heavy makeup, the dyes and jewelry and knick-knacks she adorned her hair with.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins