How to Use tchotchke in a Sentence

tchotchke

noun

• The threads and tchotchkes are hardly the coolest part, though.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
• The set looks like the tchotchke aisle at the Salvation Army Store.
  — Susan Mitchell, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
• The prizes are fun tchotchkes the manager picks up at a thrift store.
  — Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, RedEye Chicago, 10 Apr. 2018
• In the wrong context, too much tchotchke—but in the right hands, the sign of a certain haute-boho dash.
  — Sadie Stein, ELLE Decor, 23 May 2018
• Seniors showed up for the early bird specials and tchotchkes on the wall.
  — Janelle Nanos, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Pour one out for the stress balls and tchotchkes working overtime these days.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 18 June 2023
• Sure, there were still some of those tchotchkes and assorted bric-a-brac.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• People don’t have to buy clothes and tchotchkes, and sales of these items might simply go away.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
• Boxes of tchotchkes that Day had amassed at sales piled up in every room.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 July 2019
• Too many tchotchkes on the counter are bad, and too many pieces of small furniture that don’t add up to a greater sum is not great.
  — Rima Suqi, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• Hipsters and matrons alike come here in search of vintage items and tchotchkes.
  — Michelle Newman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
• The dining-room walls are barren and clean, so don't expect a lot of tchotchkes and pictures.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Still feel strange to have put away the cheery, colorful and perhaps even glitzy baubles and pillows, and tchotchkes?
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• For royal-wedding watchers glued to their screens, the keepsakes and tchotchkes are a click away as well.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
• The piece looked old amongst the clutter of measuring cups, candles and other tchotchkes.
  — Ben Finley, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• Gift shops hawk tchotchkes of every kind, while a wishing well invites passersby to toss in their coins to the many surfaces, like a game of chance.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
• Nearly all of the 2024 candidates have online stores and most have tchotchkes that riff on the year’s politics.
  — Meg Kinnard, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
• Now, the diner is known for its eclectic assemblage of toys, tchotchkes and sculptural art.
  — Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• Stained glass decorates the bar and covers the light fixtures; used books and tchotchkes sit on every corner and shelf.
  — Josie Sexton, The Know, 19 Nov. 2019
• In between phone calls, Elshiva feeds her cat, dusts her tchotchkes, and talks with a painting of St. George, waiting for her son Daniel to come back.
  — Roy Scranton, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
• The room: furniture and tchotchkes of a stately home of a generation past.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• The bargain hunters, for their part, have been coming out in droves to say their farewells and pick up their final batch of impulse-purchase tchotchkes.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Some Flagstaff merchants offer special foods, drinks and tchotchkes with a lunar theme.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 1 July 2019
• The funeral director takes us to the modest showroom with the caskets, urns, and tchotchkes whose connection to the end of life eludes me.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• Fifth Harmony used to tour malls like this: shopped from town to town, crammed between kiosks for tchotchkes and lit by department store signs.
  — Chris Martins, Billboard, 13 July 2017
• Most of us, having to do the dusting ourselves, will be contented with the vacation tchotchke.
  — Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• In one gallery, among display cases filled with little drawings, tchotchkes, and childhood ephemera, Mesler has placed a desk and a sofa.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2024
• Once up top, there's plenty to do: wander the trails, visit the Mount Roberts Nature Center, buy some tchotchkes at the gift shop and, of course, take a zillion photos.
  — Jenna Schnuer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2018
• Sure, the idea of the group sale isn’t a new thing: friends have always gathered together to pool clothes, tchotchkes, and whatnot, and market it as one big joint venture.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2019
• Against one wall is a walnut cabinet accented with tchotchkes and a copy of Patti Smith’s M Train.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024