knickknack

Example Sentences

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Ken Pellman, Greene’s longest-standing client, first commissioned a small knickknack display 30 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Alithea, a literary scholar on a work trip in Istanbul, is the latest fated candidate to summon the djinn — purchasing the blue and white glass bottle that contains him from a knickknack shop.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

A knickknack shelf by the entrance holds some waving lucky cats, a model motorcycle, a small collection of Uncle Lou baseball caps and what must be a month’s supply of Vita tea in individual cartons.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw .

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

“This is just a little knickknack I made in my spare time. If you don’t want it, just throw it away.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep