How To Use Tinsel In A Sentence

I made my own little tiki ornaments and instead of tinsel I used leis. "
There was a brief flare of white light, and the Goddess vanished, leaving only a smattering of loose tinsel behind.
It's in all its glory and ready to go back indoors for the tinsel and twinkling lights. The Sun
They are great, splendid establishments, with wide, overhung, awninged terraces, and potted plants and electric lights and gold and tinsel, and mixed drinks and ices and sorbets, and all the epicurean cold things which one may find in the best establishment in Paris. The Automobilist Abroad
Steven's eyes scanned the room immediately for people they knew, while Donnie starred amazed at the lights and tinsel decorating the flat.

The atmosphere is decidedly creepy as the increasingly inventive deaths take place against a backdrop of innocent carols, glittering tinsel and good cheer. The Sun
The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights.
High-tech air sniffers were deployed in case someone unleashed a chemical or biological assault on Tinseltown more serious than a low-budget stinker.
They loathe tinsel, detest office parties and abhor rum balls of all kinds.
It is the age of omber, of sonnets to Chloe's false ringlets, of odes to red heels and epics to lap dogs, of tinseled struttings in gilded drawing-rooms. Journeys to Bagdad
Set in 1927, this beautiful arty film is a nice antidote to tinsel and turkey. The Sun
This week, Mr. Ratner announced the fresh face he has selected to breathe new life into the wheezy annual exercise in Tinseltown self-congratulation: Eddie Murphy. Get Real, Oscar: Eddie Murphy's Not the Cure for What Ails You
The pair formed a close connection and rumours began swirling round in Tinseltown that they were far more than just colleagues. The Sun
So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines.
TOO early for tinsel and baubles? The Sun
The unnamed member of staff slipped as they took down tinsel and baubles from the ceiling of a classroom last year. The Sun
Children decorated the tree with lights, baubles, tinsel, snow and pretend gifts yesterday.
A farce with all the sophistication of cheap tinsel ensues. The Sun
It's in all its glory and ready to go back indoors for the tinsel and twinkling lights. The Sun
I had put the purple tinsel on to make my case instantly recognisable.
The staggering on too-high heels, the silly hats, the little black dresses covered in tinsel and the semi-drunken jokes about handcuffs. It’s That Time Of Year Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
To the left, she could see a parlor with a large fireplace, comfortable looking couches, a crotcheted rug, and a huge Christmas tree, decorated with lights and ornaments and tinsel. Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set
The half a dozen or so "raisers" in Tinseltown -- established Democratic figures such as Barbra Streisand, Haim Saban and Westwood One chairman Norm Pattiz -- are hardly exclusive in their support. Leading Man
The pair formed a close connection and rumours began swirling round in Tinseltown that they were far more than just colleagues. The Sun
Regardless of temperature, blizzards, or general apathy, the tinsel is tossed the first day of December. ‘Tis the Season @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
A farce with all the sophistication of cheap tinsel ensues. The Sun
Frears, however, plays both home and away, interspersing his several successful forays into the studio system with a series of low-key gems that bear not a trace of Tinseltown gloss.
Could anyone in tinsel town stoop so low?
In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys.
A young man in a white chef's toque entwined with tinsel appeared from the kitchen. THE WHITE DOVE
She desperately wanted to rest, avoid the salacious Tinseltown gossip, and take control of her life.
Along with the thin tinsel there were twisted red and green crepe paper streamers that hung in loops from the corners of the room, and balloons too. Foiled
TOO early for tinsel and baubles? The Sun
Even seasoned actors and producers find this an appropriate time to launch their sons in tinsel world.
a Christmas tree strung with tinsel,candles,presents,etc.
I think they'd prefer a splash of tinsel round the school instead.
The pathos is sweet, deep and genuine; tender, simple and true, utterly unlike much of our modern tinsel. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The lower shelves held little crocks of pate and tinsel-wrapped wedges of Camembert. CORMORANT
a Christmas tree strung with tinsel,candles,presents,etc.
Yes, a lie, turned topsy – turvy, can be prinked and tinselled out, decked in plumage new and fine, till none knows its lean old carcass. Peer Gynt
Here, too, lie the cemeteries: the Jewish, fronting the main road, with a decent enclosure; that of the Christians, framed in a wire fence and containing a few wooden crosses, imitation broken columns and tinsel wreaths; Arab tombs, scattered over a large undefined tract of brown earth, and clustering thickly about some white-domed maraboutic monument, whose saintly relics are desirable companionship for the humbler dead. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
Its self-referentiality is not only proper and earned; it grounds the film in the real tinsel beneath the tinsel in tinseltown. GreenCine Daily: Rouge. 10.
This city is often described as one of dreams and fantasy, of tinselish make-believe.
Cash stopped to see where I was when the apple caught her square on the side of the head, haloed brightly by a tinsel of outward flying juice and chunks of exploding apple-meat.
A remote-controlled quadcopter, outfitted with tinsel and mistletoe, paid a visit to Union Square, where unsuspecting San Franciscans and tourists were prompted to pucker up.
Jamie Lidell, an Englishman who has spent time on the Berlin electronica scene, bounded onstage wearing a gold-lamé jacket with a gold-tinsel wig. Pitchfork Music Festival: An Afternoon of Cross-dressing, Masks and Glitter - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Tinseltown magic sprinkled its stardust to cast a spell over Southampton, lending the city some of the glamour and glitz of a Hollywood premiere last night.
After the tree was done, she turned to the mantle, adding tinsel and pine sprigs to decorate the area around a few red candles.
At the end, she waved to the crowd with a tinsel glamour and sported a forced, yet innocent smile, revealing her missing tooth.
Despite the tinsel, things are all doom and gloom over at the Platts. The Sun
The stadium literally buzzed with proud mums and dads, brothers and sisters waving tinsel pompoms and cardboard placards, and schoolmates excitedly discussing how they would vote.
At that time, it was unthinkable that anyone would believe that it was anything but real, especially after a decoration of tinsel and an assortment of differently shaped and coloured baubles.
Around the broom, imitating tinsel, is wrapped the gauze from a bandage. Hess, Jay C.
It's amazing how it can be transformed with red baubles and tinsel. The Sun
Their breakneck velocity increased by up to 20x the original speed and cinematic over-saturation composited at different frame rates, compression levels, resolutions and varied states of digital degeneration create a mood of overkill and a noisy intensity that expresses the motorised zeitgeist of Tinseltown, the capital of vehicular excess. Bill Bush: A Drawn Appearance: This Artweek.LA (October 17-23)
Tinseltown (warner Bros) is even importing sleaze from the United Kingdom. Warner Bros. Bets Big on Russell Brand for Yet another Super-Star Playboy Movie – Collider.com
His Civil War epic turned out to be composed of sets, costumes, coiffures, tinsel and hype - and the movie made zillions.
The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments.
Despite his tinsel heroics, Jeremy wasn't able to overcome his fear and says he won't be doing it again any time soon.
They are getting the tinsel and mistletoe back out at Goodison Park this week. Times, Sunday Times
Show business is not paved with gold for the creators of its tinsel towns.
Wind on the oval tinsel in an anticlockwise direction in wide turns.
Tinsel is back, fatter and glossier than ever. Times, Sunday Times
TOO early for tinsel and baubles? The Sun
Avoid decorations that could be seen as tacky, like signs and tinsel. Times, Sunday Times
These were aluminum strips not unlike tinsel and were dropped from the aircraft to obscure the enemy's radar with ‘snow.’
Despite the tinsel, things are all doom and gloom over at the Platts. The Sun
Mainstream tinsel world celebrities have left for Dubai by Emirates Airlines today to give special performances in Dubai on May 29 and then in London on May 31.
The first hint of Christmas is no longer the tawdry line of tinsel in the high street.
Sadly, it's yet another case of Congressional false advertising - a lump of coal wrapped in shiny tinsel.
There wasn't a single extra piece of tinsel, no baubles, no lights, no street entertainment at all.
snow flakes tinseled the trees
Coat the hook with varnish and wind on the flat tinsel in a clockwise direction whilst the varnish is still wet.
The tinsel celebrity, now the talk of the town, was flying to Coimbatore for a shoot and she stopped off to pick up her boarding pass.
The gaudy tinsel and the 155,000 lights of 2004 have given way to a more natural look of Christmas trees decorated with white lilies and pink roses that are replaced as they wilt.
a Christmas tree strung with tinsel,candles,presents,etc.
Cats are particularly fond of playing with tinsel and this can be dangerous if swallowed. Times, Sunday Times
I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be.
I've put gold and silver tinsel around pictures of them. The Sun
What's the use of a lot of tinsel and lacker, if the real metal isn't there? The Way We Live Now
No tinsel, baubles or silly hats. Times, Sunday Times
His Civil War epic turned out to be composed of sets, costumes, coiffures, tinsel and hype - and the movie made zillions.
During the Christmas festival each one is adorned with decorations, but not gaudy lights and tinsel.
I've put gold and silver tinsel around pictures of them. The Sun
Meet Sudeep who is making it big in the Kannada tinsel world.
As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history: the Persians in documentary.
As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history.
After carving a niche in the tinsel world, Ananth Nagarkatti and M.H.Amarnath, alias Ambarish, entered politics and tried their luck in the new domain.
tinseled velvet
As the week segues into Christmas, the tawdry glitter of the tinsel and plastic Christmas ornaments fails to warm us with a transcedental inner glow.
his tinseled image of Hollywood
The law emphasizes that only those of ‘superior degrees’ are permitted to wear satin, silk, and sable or cloth made of or mixed with gold, silver, or tinsel.
This is why tinsel is used to decorate Christmas trees.
The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments.
What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality, but we can not seem to grasp it.
Prospero devises a show of tinsel finery to sidetrack the vulgarians, but he is not present to see Caliban's disillusionment, or his vehement contempt.
Twist the string of lights and the tinsel loosely together, securing the end with a piece of sticky tape. Times, Sunday Times
The function of poetry and the arts is to remind us that the greenroom is the greyest of illusions, and the reality is the drama presented before us, all its paint and tinsel, masks and pageantry, made one in art. Creative Unity
The crown was the usual "berretta" (night-cap) of open work; the sceptre, a drum-major's staff; the robes, a "parochial" beadle's coat of scarlet cloth, edged with tinsel gold lace. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
Cats are particularly fond of playing with tinsel and this can be dangerous if swallowed. Times, Sunday Times
The most longstanding, and perhaps easiest, criticism of these fantasies is that they are unreal - mere flimflam or tinsel, designed to distract, and so dupe, the purchaser of the fantasy.
A piece of green tinsel was twirled around her call-bell.
His helpers, wearing bright yellow jackets, tinsel and antlers, carried on through the streets of Welling as best they could but onlookers could not help but be disappointed at his non-appearance.
No tinsel, baubles or silly hats. Times, Sunday Times
Such skulduggery may be woven into the fabric of Tinseltown. Times, Sunday Times
I stood beneath the tinsel, understanding her now, her sleek smile, those dangerous eyes, her dares.
As to those who see Hepburn, Hope and Peck's shuffling off into the hereafter as the absolute end of old Tinseltown, I felt that way when Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart hung up their spurs within 24 hours of each other.
These cultural meets are also fast turning out to be platforms for bringing in tinsel stars, notwithstanding the fact that they have nothing to do with academics.
The oldest sister, Sarah, got greatly involved in tinsel painting and resurrected the stencils of their great-uncle, Bill Crowell. Bird Cloud
The unnamed member of staff slipped as they took down tinsel and baubles from the ceiling of a classroom last year. The Sun
The allure of Tinseltown has always been about escapism.
`Christmas decorations," Kevin said, bringing out the words like an armful of tinsel. LOST CHILDREN
I am careful not to push loose the strand of tinsel Christmas decorations that I left strung across the room.
Polo had described as abounding in Cipango; when he walked by the shore and saw the shells of pearl oysters, he believed the island to be loaded with pearls and precious stones; when he saw a scrap of tinsel or bright metal adorning a native, he argued that there was a gold mine close at hand. Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete
In fact, a seldom trumpeted trait about the Malayalam film industry has been its rendering a red carpet welcome to its tinsel townhood neighbours!
In our lounge there won't be any tinsel and turkey has always been off the menu. Times, Sunday Times
Use natural or painted wooden beads, or strings of cranberries or popcorn to drape the tree instead of tinsel.
Like them he too had little difficulty entering the glitzy and glamorous tinsel world.
If not covered with flocking, tinsel, or fire retardant, trees can be chipped for mulch or used whole to stabilize wetlands.
He once again proves himself to be the most fully realized but underused comedic talent in tinseltown.
In our lounge there won't be any tinsel and turkey has always been off the menu. Times, Sunday Times
Although tinsel is very pretty and is a common decoration on trees, your pet may swallow it.
That was a novel about the boom years of the 80s, which now seem lost in the explosion of tinsel that characterized the boom of the 90s.
Well, the tinsel is being put away, lights are being torn down, eggnog hangovers are being nursed, and entire legions of families are sitting around the table, eating breakfast in awkward silence after the drunken revelations from the night before. Holiday Review: Christmas | Heretical Ideas Magazine
For someone who landed a role opposite the gorgeous Rekha even before he had unpacked his suitcase, life in tinsel town has been a roller coaster - with plenty of ups and downs.
‘The Delicate Art of Parking’ is playing at the Cinemark Tinseltown theatres in Vancouver.
They also wanted the airport to donate last year's tinsel and festive décor to local community groups.
They queued for appointments to have spectacular couture headdresses especially made for them out of hydrangeas, gypsophila, daisies, fake roses, tinsel and toy parts by Kirchhoff, Meadham and Mazhar. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Opened with 'Walk across the Rooftops': the album was well represented, with 'Stay', the ever wonderful 'Heatwave', 'Easter Parade' and, in the main set closer 'Tinseltown in the Rain': singalong stylie: 'Do I love you?' Headlights on the M8
The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights.
The room was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly.
Tie in silver oval tinsel under the hook, followed by peach wool tail and two peacock herls.
Cover up with holly, ivy and tinsel. Times, Sunday Times
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It's amazing how it can be transformed with red baubles and tinsel. The Sun
Despite the tinsel, things are all doom and gloom over at the Platts. The Sun
Long after everyone has consigned their tinsel and baubles to the loft for another year, it seems Rochdale Council is still in the Yuletide mood.
Last night found that his bicycle, ringed round with chains like tinsel on a Xmas tree, had had its seat stolen.
Set in 1927, this beautiful arty film is a nice antidote to tinsel and turkey. The Sun
She moved toward from the foyer to the study, pointing out the tinsel that lined the banister of the staircase and bannered the arched walkways, ‘Don't you like the decorations?
Interestingly though, the English word 'tinsel' is actually taken, not from German but from the French word 'estincele', which translates roughly as 'sparkle'. deklin42, posted this comment on Dec 3rd, 2009 Quazen
It is worth while to go for a moment behind the scene; We have seen the actors, with mask and cothurn and tinsel crown, playing their well-conned parts upon the stage. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
Such skulduggery may be woven into the fabric of Tinseltown. Times, Sunday Times
The silvery leaves of the eucalyptus trees spangle like tinsel. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
Bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinseled dancers and old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
The tinsel town rolled out the red carpet, promising not just money and fame, but an opportunity to break free from mundaneness that defines the middle class.
We took balloons and tinsel to decorate the black netting sunshade under which we had a traditional feast of a huge chicken wrapped in foil and cooked on the beach barbecue all morning.
While its needles are still alive and fresh, we decorate the tree with colorful glass globes, tinsel, red winterberries from a deciduous holly, spruce and fir cones, and cotton to simulate snow.
I still have most of it today - the muddle of contrasting strands of tinsel, cheapo lights, silly looking plastic icicles and homemade snowflakes, and yes, I still put them up every year - height clearance permitting.
Close interaction with those in tinsel town has helped several association members secure jobs.
Tinsel painting was a variant of potichomanie in which a metallic foil would be crumpled and applied behind the unpainted areas of the glass to give it an intriguing sparkle in gas or candlelight. Book-Wyrm-Knits
Columbus thought that he smelled Oriental spices, which Marco Polo had described as abounding in Cipango; when he walked by the shore and saw the shells of pearl oysters, he believed the island to be loaded with pearls and precious stones; when he saw a scrap of tinsel or bright metal adorning a native, he argued that there was a gold mine close at hand. Christopher Columbus
A veterinary charity is warning pet owners to beware of tinsel after two cats needed life-saving treatment after eating it. Times, Sunday Times
Set in 1927, this beautiful arty film is a nice antidote to tinsel and turkey. The Sun
To create a character, you take a shiny button here, a strand of hair there, a bit of tinsel from the garbage can, and build something which, you hope, will look like a person. Claire Messud discusses The Emperor's Children
But it's alternative; it's for people who think glamour is not tinsel.
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Despite the tinsel, things are all doom and gloom over at the Platts. The Sun
a tinseled charm and unabashed sentimentality
Oh, and this strip of tinsel is already beginning to irritate me.
I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be.
For the Feast of Lights is also a feast of toys in bewildering variety; in sugar, in paper, in burnt clay; tinselled, or gorgeously painted with colours such as never were on ox or elephant, fish or bird. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
A camel ambles past, decorated in tinsel and red trappings.
What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
They did, after all, drop their hosts from the rafters like Ziegfeld showgirls, while draping the proscenium in tinsel lights and the stage in drapes. Oscar show had its smart moments, just not enough
A bright thread of tinsel like this, so difficult to see from the road, must glint and beckon from the air. Times, Sunday Times
The atmosphere is decidedly creepy as the increasingly inventive deaths take place against a backdrop of innocent carols, glittering tinsel and good cheer. The Sun
With hardly any releases to speak of in the last couple of years, and no more than a single hit from her last five productions, it should be easy to dismiss her as just another ambitious woman in the glamorous tinsel world.
That explains the absence of carols, tinsel and holly if you come listening through our keyhole and peering through our window this year.
They need to be seen lightly dusted with snow on the side of a mountain, or covered in tinsel and flashing lights. Times, Sunday Times
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By stuffing their staging into a shabby-looking set roughly comparable in size to a second-rate nightclub, Terry Johnson and Tim Shortall, the director and set designer, have clipped away the tinsel and made it possible for the audience to focus on the relationship of Georges (Kelsey Grammer, still best known for "Frasier") and Albin (Douglas Hodge). Size Matters
I scored 11 out of 15 which came with a cheerful holiday message: Good try but the tinsel is looking a little tatty and your needles are starting to drop. Yeah It’s Friday! « So Many Books
It was decorated with glass balls, tinsel and candle topped it.
Skip the tinsel, or move it to a high spot on your tree where your cats and dogs can't get them, warns. Put fragile ornaments at the tip-top of your tree, too, in case jumpy pets try to get to them.
There is always a towering pine tree dripping with mismatched baubles, tinsel and lights. Times, Sunday Times
No tinsel, baubles or silly hats. Times, Sunday Times
But I'm willing to wager that it's not Tinsel Town's glyptography they're bragging about, but those of long dead dignitaries.
They need to be seen lightly dusted with snow on the side of a mountain, or covered in tinsel and flashing lights. Times, Sunday Times
Nowadays people fill their homes at Christmas with all kinds of decorations: tinsel, colour, lights, reindeers and a superfluity of Santa Clauses.
Cats are particularly fond of playing with tinsel and this can be dangerous if swallowed. Times, Sunday Times
Passionate Man is not to be so satisfied; and the time was fully come for the rise of some fierce spirit, who should change the tinsel theology of the crucifix for the iron religion of the sword: who should blow in the ears of the slumbering West the shrill war-blast of Eastern fervencies; who should exchange the dull rewards of canonization due to penance, or an after-life voluntary humiliation under pseudo-saints and angels, for the human and comprehensible joys of animal appetite and military glory: who should enlist under his banner all the frantic zeal, all the pent-up licentiousness, all the heart-burning hatreds of mankind, stifled either by a positive barbarism, or the incense-laden cloud of a scarcely-masked idolatry. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
But, given the creative skills and imagination of our tinsel town copywriters, the word takes a different connotation altogether.
The festival screened as many as 25 short and docufilms of exceptional quality, a visual delight to those who crave for realism in the highly commercialised tinsel world.
Grotesquely camp, the film remains one of the most acidic indictments of Tinsel Town since Gloria Swanson got ready for her close-up.
But while the Tinseltown titans are flashing cash around Charlestown to get their flicks made without a hitch, the cast and crew of the super low-budget "Oxymorons" are quietly gaining support for their indie flick from locals who think the film's message is priceless. Home - BostonHerald.com
In the living room, festive decorations of silver and red tinsel are still wrapped around a lampstand and curtain rail. The Sun
The downs are a great mass of chalk resulting from some primeval upheaval which give the northern half of the county its distinctive rounded look, with great hump-backed hills like Martinsell near Oare, Milk Hill and Tan Hill.
Such is their distaste for tinsel distinctions that, throughout the devolved parliament's long, three-year history, they have only awarded themselves one medal.
There is always a towering pine tree dripping with mismatched baubles, tinsel and lights. Times, Sunday Times
Cover up with holly, ivy and tinsel. Times, Sunday Times
He still continues to make style statements with his ensemble and not for nothing is he called the well-dressed man of Telugu tinsel ville.
So, flush with cash, private-equity funds are swarming over Tinseltown.
Oh you studied creatures, you flimsy confections of powder and resin, set in tinsel and imitation leather!
Such skulduggery may be woven into the fabric of Tinseltown. Times, Sunday Times
The marabou minnow is silver tinsel wrapped the length of the body and white marabou tied at the head. Does anybody else on here fly fish for crappie? If so what flies do you use?
What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill.
THEN Roll on the tears, tantrums and tinsel. The Sun
The actress has starred in films such as Something About Mary, Vanilla Sky and last year's epic Gangs of New York and is one of Tinseltown's hottest stars.
Around the broom, imitating tinsel, is wrapped the gauze from a bandage. Hess, Jay C.

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