appurtenances

Example Sentences

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“This wildfire was started by sparks from high-voltage transmission lines, distribution lines, appurtenances, and other electrical equipment within PacifiCorp’s utility infrastructure that ignited surrounding vegetation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2022

Or, underneath the cultural appurtenances of Hawaiian life, were the islanders behaving rationally and pragmatically, much as any other people might?

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

One of the most unaccountable recent additions to the shopping-mall audio loop is Joni Mitchell’s “River,” which advocates skating away from all the holiday’s appurtenances, including cut-down trees, reindeer and “songs of joy and peace.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017

It has the appurtenances of the supernal without the transcendence.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2017

When Mother was at home, she made him wear such appurtenances as a coat and a belt.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey