trinket

Example Sentences

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Roughly a year ago, the threshold for a second trinket dropped to 25 plates instead of 30, enticing people to up their plate count from the low 20s to 25, according to Uttz, the CFO.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

One analyst hasn’t been taken in, characterizing it as an effort to ride last year’s Labubu-led trinket craze.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

Should I be ashamed to have outsourced self-control to something as banal as a 4-square-inch trinket?

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

From an £800 trinket box to a rusty ice cream fridge receiving zero bids, Bargain Hunt has seen thousands of items go under the hammer.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

“Ain’t that something. So, you know what I done, Ignatius. I give her a quarter and I says, ‘Here, darling, go buy you a trinket for your little granchirren.’”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole