gewgaws in a sentence
Examples
- But fences, including the Kingdome's right field, often are not clear, festooned as they are with scoreboards, railings and other gewgaws.
- William Merritt Chase, who never set foot in Asia, tarted up his New York studio with all manner of Asian gewgaws as a promotional lure.
- Gimmicks and gewgaws and exaggerated cuts have been abandoned, as outdated and unwanted as the 80's pouf and the dress-for-success suit.
- He's currently signed to Capitol's Blue Note jazz division, which released this year's delightful " Gimcracks and Gewgaws ."
- Along with the ubiquitous Lucite-block gewgaws for deal makers, companies like Lucent, which makes telecommunications equipment, are handing out baseball caps at the exchange.
- Tattoo parlors, body piercing salons, motorcycle-parts boutiques and a couple hundred other small businesses selling T-shirts, doodads and gewgaws set up shop.
- A short walk from the American border, surrounded by gaudy bars and gewgaws, hundreds of pharmacies sell millions of dollars'worth of medicine for a song.
- The set is merely a stage carpeted in AstroTurf with a bright blue backdrop that looks vaguely like a game board, to which various symbolic gewgaws are affixed.
- Devotees of Soviet gongs and gewgaws can now build up an entire collection for next to nothing, with everything from red stars to heroic workers'medals readily available.
- A glass-encased skull at the cathedral is billed as his, but the no-brainer gewgaws on sale at innumerable souvenir shops get more attention from visitors.