tinsel
Example Sentences
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“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
Mr King said he also used to decorate his tree with tinsel and glass baubles.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
A Christmas tree was dusted off, tinsel and baubles were unpacked, and the hotel was decked out with decorations.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
Griffiths doesn’t fight against the formula, he just takes our expectations for every scene and gingers them up a little, the movie version of a cozy sweater threaded with tinsel.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
Twinkling with colored lights, shiny balls, white doves, jeweled icicles, and miles of silver tinsel, it was topped by a brilliant star and skirted with gifts wrapped in finery.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
