trimmings

Example Sentences

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And yes, despite your editor’s constant trimmings, you’ll still kick off emphatic sentences with “Yes” more than 50 times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

For income investors with a value bent, those six have the ingredients of a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

Row upon row of elaborate trimmings are composed of interlocking streams of fluid silver, their chain-like pattern more visually felt than precisely illustrated.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

When all the trimmings are totted up, a family Christmas is set to cost £31.66 in 2024, down from last year's figure of £32.18.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024

And there's Herr Kaltenbach, the baker, who gives Helmuth extra apple-cake trimmings.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti