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

“The task was to create the tree, but make it different. So, you still love the tinsel, still love the colorful balls, and you still want lots of light,” Brown said.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025

"There wasn't necessarily a massive amount of choice, but the choice was for these kind of bright space age tinsel decorations... the majority from Hong Kong," says Lucy, 45, from Birmingham.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

That's how Hollywood's creative workers describe the fall of the once mighty Warner Bros, as Netflix and Paramount battle to buy the historic studio and tinsel town braces for more upheaval and job losses.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

It was the same color as Christmas tinsel.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

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

And while my beard has tinseled, the intervening years haven’t exactly been kind to Rome either.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2017

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

Not to put too fine a point upon it, we were a tinselled lot of mimes, greatly given to apishness, and shunning naked truth as though it were the plague.

From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock

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

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