tinseled
Example Sentences
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Wynette, by then a country music legend with a tinseled string of No. 1 songs, was, as she expressed it in an open letter, as angry as she could be.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
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
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
