How to Use trinket in a Sentence

trinket

noun
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  • The tribes aren’t taking them to have them as pets or as trinkets of some past thing.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The same blue eye trinkets can be seen in countless tourist shops and street stalls.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That’s where a new kind of trinket comes into play: a hinge head.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This room has all of my stuff in it — my books, my antiques, my trinkets.
    — Tiffany Hsu, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • Her daughters, ages 5 and 7, like to shop for trinkets at the vendors’ stands.
    — Emily Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
  • Just control that impulse to buy dozens and dozens of trinkets and cool stuff.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Today those beads and trinkets are sitting in a bag in a spare room.
    — Joelle A. Murchison, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2024
  • Across the gym, Kester helped a young boy stuff trinkets into a stocking.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Palm trees and art galleries line the streets downtown, where tourists stop for trinkets and ice cream.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • To play, kids have to reach into the dragon’s belly for a trinket.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Gift it alone as a sweet trinket or include it in a gift bundle.
    — Terri Huggins Hart, Woman's Day, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The trinket seller’s skin was dark and blotchy from exposure to sun and dust.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • At the end of the trail, place a bucket or pot filled with chocolate coins, St. Patrick's Day cookies, and green trinkets and toys.
    — Amanda Rock, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Lion teeth and claws are known to have value as trinkets.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • Float riders throw trinkets to the crowds, a tradition that began in the 1870s.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Almanac, then, is an art object, a Wunderkammer of trinkets from the land of facts.
    — Jonathan Malesic, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Others would create trinkets or works of art to be sold at craft fairs.
    — Steve Jagler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2017
  • None of those trinkets worked — at least not well enough to help the Magic land a superstar.
    — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018
  • Shipping these trinkets home seems to be the only workaround for out-of-state tourists.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Give it to anyone who needs a cooler home for their keys, rings, trinkets, or spare change.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2024
  • It was filled with the stuffed animals and trinkets left as a remembrance for the 12-year-old boy.
    — cleveland.com, 23 June 2019
  • Some people like to bring home trinkets from their travels, which is great!
    — Marian Bull, GQ, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Each tab on the trinket had a hole in it which may have been used to screw the object into something to act as a cover.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The pieces are designed to be used in a multitude of ways, such as a serving dish, a deep plate and a trinket bowl/catch-all.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Blackwood is also flanked by his twins, one of whom is holding the Imp trinket.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2020
  • See our picks for pleasant-feeling trinkets (and riffs on the theme), below.
    — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
  • People ascribed the value of their effort to the trinket.
    — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
  • They're meant to hold teabags, but could also be trinket holders.
    — Annie O'Sullivan, Woman's Day, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Over hundreds of episodes and more than 20 seasons, Fritz and Wolfe scoured the nation for antique and vintage goods — finding value in and giving new life to aging trinkets.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But Gen Alpha’s love of viral brands and collectible trinkets is inextricable from their digital-native status.
    — Bysasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2024

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