tinsel

“Let’s pack our bags, grab some tinsel and emotionally prepare for a hearty serving of family dysfunction,” the streamer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026

“For that, we added lots of swallow-tailed ribbons for an extra pop of color … underneath all the tinsel which is Zooey’s absolute favorite!” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025

But this year, her living room is an explosion of colour, bedecked with foil stars, tinsel and homemade paper chains and ribbon garlands.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

While this month is mid-summer for half the world, Australia is in the depths of winter and for many, that means it's time for tinsel, turkey and Yuletide tunes.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025

It was the same color as Christmas tinsel.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

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

Christmas only really starts when her tinselled tonsils appear on the radio.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2021

Inside, the tinselled high school is overstuffed with actors from the show—all beautifully graduated from puberty—breathing in the vapors of nostalgia.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2018

I say altar; it was actually a tinselled corner of R&R's.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013

Such, however, was the easy character of the English nation, that they submitted to the absolute command of a tinselled despot, and became dupes to custom.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

The windows had cheap lace curtains, stiff enough to stand alone, and green shades with tinselled decorations.

From Westerfelt by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben

Seats were provided for these workers except for those at tinselling; and if they found they were able to complete the task easily, they sat at the work.

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark