gewgaws

Example Sentences

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Various other mythological agents, recipes and gewgaws are crafted as desired.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024

It was like a cupboard, crowded with old gewgaws and dust-coated knickknacks — the critic’s mind! — and, fool that I am, I couldn’t squeeze Katz into it.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2022

Batman and Superman gewgaws are on view to underscore that point.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2022

We have babies and then we buy—blankets, strollers, a playpen, a high chair, gewgaws, and contraptions.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 24, 2019

No place in town had more gimcracks, doodads, and gewgaws crammed into less space in a more orderly fashion than Onofre’s spread.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols