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Recent Examples of trinket Fixed an issue where trinkets couldn't be sold to merchants. Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 Add hints of texture and color through baskets, trinkets, photos, and florals. Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025 With colorful eggs, flowers, books, toys, and trinkets hidden among greenery, this family tradition extends far beyond the young ones—adults love an Easter basket, too. Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025 Think of trivial consumer items like novelty toys or single-use plastic trinkets. James Broughel, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trinket
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Noun
  • Companion plants for ornamentals such as hydrangeas are selected for aesthetic purposes.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Multipurpose nasturtiums can be grown for their edible flowers and leaves, or enjoyed as pollinator-friendly ornamentals.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Isabelle McCalla gives an endearing, heartfelt and sometimes tearful performance as Elinor, who sings poignantly about her desire to be more useful in society than just a child-bearing ornament.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The species’s presence in the U.K. dates back at least two hundred and fifty thousand years, and has inspired whimsical reverence—badgers appear across children’s literature and cartoons, on holiday ornaments, and as beloved mascots—and extreme loathing.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Purchases of food, drink, lanterns to launch on the lake and souvenirs require Wildbucks, scrip that can be bought on the grounds.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The beautiful bookshop boasts fiction and contemporary non-fiction but its speciality is really in higher-end fine art books (that would make for great Parisian souvenirs).
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Slouchy fits with grungy washes were embellished with baubles, distressing and color contrasting patchwork.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Slouchy fits with grungy washes were embellished with baubles, distressing and color contrasting patchwork.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Trinket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trinket. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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