frippery in a sentence

Examples

1. Australian director Baz Luhrman's fin-de-siecle film filled with wall-to-wall frippery.
2. New Yorkers once had no time for fripperies like street trees or flowers, said Tony Hiss, an author.
3. Your first few spoonfuls are spent trying to figure out how to get through the fripperies and into the soup.
4. So when they make money they squander it on the fripperies conventionally associated with affluence, which the solidly wealthy eschew.
5. Where drugs to change personality traits were once seen as medicinal fripperies or enhancements, they are now seen as entitlements.
6. Only wily Sue Ella Lightfoot ( Evalyn Baron ) detects " something mighty slippery beneath those frills and frippery ."
7. Phillips said he was having none of these frills and fripperies, and was therefore out of the A-Rod market.
8. Yeohlee Teng, a New York designer known for minimalist women's clothing, predicted a streamlined silhouette with no frippery.
9. They almost completely discard the frippery of sets and costumes and pare the work down to its basic structure of words and music.
10. This reader was very put out with my tendency to compare such frippery things as flamenco and didgeridoo while utterly ignoring military history.