tinsel
Example Sentences
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“The task was to create the tree, but make it different. So, you still love the tinsel, still love the colorful balls, and you still want lots of light,” Brown said.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025
But this year, her living room is an explosion of colour, bedecked with foil stars, tinsel and homemade paper chains and ribbon garlands.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
Decorations like tinsel and brightly-coloured lights "take us back", agrees 52-year-old Pandora Maxton from York, an influencer who means business with her elaborate festive displays.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
Griffiths doesn’t fight against the formula, he just takes our expectations for every scene and gingers them up a little, the movie version of a cozy sweater threaded with tinsel.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
Their coats all had brass buttons or tinsel or piping or numbers or stripes or eagles or moons or stars dangling from them.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.