TRINKET in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for TRINKET, such as:

1. Heavily enough to oblige me to sell some trinkets.
2. Then Duane took the watch and trinkets downstairs, and came back with sixteen dollars.
3. Whenever she traveled abroad, Ethel would pick up costume jewelry or trinket as souvenirs.
4. The barterer exchanged trinkets for the natives' furs. It seemed smarter to trade than to pay cash.
5. had had for its special industry the imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany.

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trinket
 n.  cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Classic Sentence:
1  Heathcliff had opened the trinket and cast out its contents, replacing them by a black lock of his own.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  "Well, he can have it," said the sergeant, who was satisfied enough with the jewelry and trinkets tied up in his handkerchief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  It was one of the taxes she had to pay for their prolonged hospitality, and for the dresses and trinkets which occasionally replenished her insufficient wardrobe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  Tonight the luck had been persistently bad, and the little gold purse which hung among her trinkets was almost empty when she returned to her room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  Then Duane took the watch and trinkets downstairs, and came back with sixteen dollars.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
6  They consisted principally of trinkets of little value, plundered from the slaughtered females of William Henry.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
7  On this table lay Eva's books and little trinkets, with an elegantly wrought alabaster writing-stand, which her father had supplied to her when he saw her trying to improve herself in writing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  One day, as she inspected this drawer, I observed that the playthings and trinkets which recently formed its contents were transmuted into bits of folded paper.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
10  Heavily enough to oblige me to sell some trinkets.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
11  Having replaced these trinkets, the Jew took out another: so small that it lay in the palm of his hand.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  had had for its special industry the imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE...
13  Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
14  Then the queen her mother, packed up a great many costly things; jewels, and gold, and silver; trinkets, fine dresses, and in short everything that became a royal bride.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
Example Sentence:
1  Whenever she traveled abroad, Ethel would pick up costume jewelry or trinket as souvenirs.
2  The barterer exchanged trinkets for the natives' furs. It seemed smarter to trade than to pay cash.
3  They discovered that the wealthy customer was a kleptomaniac when they caught her stealing some cheap trinkets.