How To Use Gewgaw In A Sentence

  • This sort of gewgaws undignify a speech, instead of adding a grace. A Tramp Abroad
  • Yet, if they won, they would be buying both the gewgaw and a print-out of the story. For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson
  • Grab the first gewgaw and just do it, quick, like ripping off a Band-Aid. Dean Sluyter: Your Junk Drawer vs. Nirvana
  • The bookshelves are pine, and contain six levels of books each, with knickknacks and gewgaws on each level.
  • The Elu of Fifteen ought therefore to take the lead of his fellow-citizen, not in frivolous amusements, not in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar; but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name encircled, not with barbaric splendor, or attached to courtly gewgaws, but illustrated by the honors most worthy of our rational nature; coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced by a few, at least, whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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  • You really expect me to believe your Vista system, with all the gimcracks and gewgaws enabled loads up in just 24 seconds? EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another Stack Overflow
  • It was successful, too, and we came away with the car boot stuffed with pictures, frames, pots and gewgaws all carefully chosen to lift a corner here, add a bit of interest there.
  • You want something that shows thought, not some gewgaw that ends up on a closet shelf.
  • The ‘better stuff’ was usually inside - that is, if you could find it among the dust, gewgaws, and other clutter.
  • This sort of gewgaws undignify a speech, instead of adding A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07
  • That 'etagere' was Sidonie's very soul, and her thoughts, always commonplace, petty, vain, and empty, resembled those gewgaws. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • That just seems common sense at this point: that ‘brand’ is about all the touchpoints with your customers and partners, not just your logo, and not just the latest RIA gewgaw on your homepage. Inkblurt · Systems & Ecosystems: Object Oriented Design
  • With check-in times now prolonged because of security issues, traders are lapping up even more business as they tempt us with their trinkets and gewgaws.
  • He was driving some sissy little Japanese car with odd little tires and wheels and a bunch of ugly gewgaws and gimcracks bolted on.
  • For profit -- his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts. ' Chapter 6: Adumbrations
  • I had no problems w/the scent/aroma of da Quarter (aside from Bourbon St. which I generally avoid when in town - tho 'Yesteryear's always has some gewgaw I must possess). Your Right Hand Thief
  • Sadly, the book prizes are restricted to residents of the British isles, but as a compensation a further 3 correct entries from outwith these sceptered isles will receive a nifty wee promotional-type gewgaw currently to be decided upon. Seeds Of Earth Competition! – Updated « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
  • Alas, I cannot find it in my eleemosynary nature to weep a solitary tear for this haut bourgeois pretender and his gewgaw-bearing mate. Archive 2007-07-01
  • Everywhere there are ornaments and sculptures and gewgaws, many of them, when you look closely, of figures or animals in flagrante delicto. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hunting through the yard sales, second hand shops, and antique malls for a gewgaw is delightful challenge. Archive 2008-01-01
  • To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her. The Newcomes
  • Mathayus plans to journey to Egypt to get a mystical weapon to help him defeat the evil Sargon, but quickly learns that he must get a different magic gewgaw, the sword of Damocles, in order to kill his foe. DVD Review: Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (Blu-ray)
  • There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.

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