knickknack

Example Sentences

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Ken Pellman, Greene’s longest-standing client, first commissioned a small knickknack display 30 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Alithea, a literary scholar on a work trip in Istanbul, is the latest fated candidate to summon the djinn — purchasing the blue and white glass bottle that contains him from a knickknack shop.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

A knickknack shelf by the entrance holds some waving lucky cats, a model motorcycle, a small collection of Uncle Lou baseball caps and what must be a month’s supply of Vita tea in individual cartons.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

These little knickknack injuries, that’s how it started with me.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

At Miss Lizzy’s I dusted every knickknack in that big house.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles