gimcrack in a sentence
Examples
- It's not just the gimcrack look of the sets and costumes but the feeling that no one has bothered to direct the stars.
- In 1887, Lord Durham gave a speech at the Gimcrack Club intimating wrongdoings with the running of the horses at Chetwynd's stable.
- Fard was sired by Reprimand, a top-class racehorse whose wins included the Gimcrack Stakes, Earl of Sefton Stakes and Sandown Mile.
- The photographer Robert Cumming staged gimcrack scientific experiments with devices expressly designed not to work but to make jokes and raise questions about perception and photography.
- He was one of the leading two-year-olds of 1947, although he did not race after winning the Gimcrack Stakes in August.
- He produced his best performance as a juvenile in 2013 when he won four of his five races including the Gimcrack Stakes and Middle Park Stakes.
- Incredibly, in a rich consortium of 30 franchises, nearly one quarter of all the NFL shirts and caps and other gimcracks sold bear Cowboy insignias.
- The owner of the winning horse is traditionally invited to give a speech at the annual Gimcrack Dinner, which is held at the racecourse in December.
- The best was Stalker who was consistent all year and won both the Gimcrack Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes, as well as two other races.
- On his return to the track Steel Heart started at odds of 17 / 2 for the Gimcrack Stakes over six furlongs at York Racecourse in August.