trinket
Example Sentences
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In other years, she and her friends might have exchanged earrings or other trinkets.
Local tribes in the Darién Gap in modern-day Panama weren’t impressed with the trinkets the Scottish sailors brought to trade.
It felt like sifting through the treasures inside Ariel’s’ underwater grotto; even the tiniest trinket was etched with perfect, arcane meaning.
From Salon
Others wait patiently at the merchandise stalls, anxious to buy a jersey, a scarf, a commemorative trinket.
From New York Times
I knew he hadn’t purchased this trinket for me.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
