gewgaws

Example Sentences

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We’ve already got quite a few geegaws and gimcracks in there already.

From Fox News • Apr. 4, 2019

There is some giddy avoidance in all the lights and delightfully cheesy geegaws.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2015

But the lesson about the Happy Meal is it has to be about the food, not the geegaws and gimmicks.

From Chicago Tribune • Sep. 24, 2014

Gillies’ sentences are as packed with wisdom as are the coffee tables with geegaws that she mourns.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2014

The smallest ones were always as dressed up as their parents, with hair bows and suspenders and other geegaws Luke knew his parents would never buy.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix