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

It has the appurtenances of the supernal without the transcendence.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2017

In fact, it is the whole package — the dress, the background, the appurtenances of wealth and power — that matters.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

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