tinseled

Example Sentences

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As artists and writers know all too well, there’s no place like home for the holidays, with tensions simmering beneath the tinseled surface of foil-wrapped presents and forced cheer.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

Please understand, I’m not a wraith in sackcloth among the tinseled brides of fortune.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2019

And while my beard has tinseled, the intervening years haven’t exactly been kind to Rome either.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017

Those who reject it — Scrooge, the Grinch — must be forced into its tinseled embrace.

From Time • Dec. 24, 2011

Within an hour or two, the holiday would come bounding down the stairs and squealing ’round the tinseled trees of Two Mills.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli