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