How to Use frippery in a Sentence

frippery

noun

• The design is simple and devoid of needless frippery.
• The list of standard frippery is cranked up a notch for the GLE53.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
• The comeback has occurred in Pilsen, far from the high-rent frippery of the West Loop.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 8 Aug. 2017
• How can the Zelenskys indulge in such frippery when there’s a war on?
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
• Back in 1990, the CRX Si didn't have airbags, let alone touchscreens or digital frippery.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 13 June 2022
• All the frippery and pressures of their lives were left behind in Palermo.
  — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2022
• Blue Heaven’ transforms from a steely blue to a brilliant burgundy in the fall, perfect for front-of-the-border frippery.
  — Amy Merrick, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• The top, baked to a burnished matte mahogany, is etched in a spare pattern with the tip of a knife — no icing, no frosting, no frippery or frills.
  — Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Fashion alone, some dress hanging on a rack, is mindless frippery.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
• Yes, there's the occasional hat or edgy shoe, but Sednaoui forgoes over-the-top frippery.
  — Derek Blasberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2011
• There's no melodrama or frippery in this case-by-case analysis of crime.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• These hooded towels are just extremely cute – this list’s one item of frippery.
  — Emily Gould, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Craig has a rugged charm and piercingly intelligent eyes, but isn’t prone to frippery.
  — Sophy Roberts, CNT, 28 Mar. 2017
• Tracee Ellis Ross wore her second feathered Marc Jacobs look of the week, single-handedly making the case for ’60s-style frippery in the process.
  — Vogue, 1 Apr. 2019
• All Felicia’s fab frippery and damn-the-torpedoes repartee puts the armor in glamour.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 6 May 2017
• Yet in the end, amid all the fun and frippery, the one garment that most lingered was perhaps the least elaborate, least formal of all: the T-shirt worn by Billie Eilish for her performance.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• In the last act, Wagner removes all the frippery, with just three characters and their own personal stories.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• But those sentiments still reinforce the idea that the speech of young women isn’t just empty frippery, but an active force of evil tearing apart our language.
  — Kory Stamper, The Cut, 29 Jan. 2018
• My Lightning is the ideal Lightning, bereft of frippery but fitted with the most powerful motors, an homage to its tail-happy namesake.
  — Car and Driver, 11 May 2022
• Offices have traditionally set aside just 3-4% of floor space for such fripperies.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• Two years later, amid disappointing ticket sales, Norwegian spent $50m ripping out all the Chinese fripperies and moved the ship to Alaskan fjords.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Fans repaid her with a fierce devotion, showing up to her readings in their finest vampiric frippery.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
• If anything, by stripping away all of the frippery and bloat that makes Bing a slog, Ghostery offers a stirring defense of that engine's core capabilities.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
• In the fat times, managers could be careless with money; staff complained about spending on fripperies, such as making surroundings more pleasant.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• These dramas and comedies are typically lacking in effects budgets and other frippery, and many of them will sink without a trace.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
• In the late '80s, one group of owners went on a little tear to soften The Reef’s brutalist edges with bits of frippery more in keeping with the moment’s love affair with both English country and Mediterranean revival style.
  — Steven Stolman, House Beautiful, 6 Mar. 2019
• But while the plethora of new options and tailored advice for female finances are a big step for women, is all the feminine frippery really necessary?
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 4 May 2018
• The kind of modernism that Loos advocated was spare and austere, highlighting the function of each object or structure rather than concealing it behind layers of frippery.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2020
• This year has forced us all to reexamine our relationship to things, placing more importance on function over frippery.
  — Jolie Kerr, CNN Underscored, 16 Nov. 2020
• There will be pomp, circumstance, carriages, frippery and most importantly, a speech by Queen Elizabeth II herself.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024