Example sentences for: bric-a-brac

How can you use “bric-a-brac” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Few films have ever offered so inspired a blend of sentimentality, Grand Guignol horror, and sophisticated camp, or such deliriously inventive laboratory bric-a-brac.

  • People travel from afar to sift through the offerings of used kimono, antique furniture and ceramics, antique scrolls, crafts, food, household items, and countless other categories of bric-a-brac and sundries, paying prices ranging from the reasonable to the outrageous.

  • Christian Dior subsidized a show of Dior couture; Tiffany paid for a show of Tiffany bibelots; Fabergé underwrote a show of Fabergé eggs, jewels, and bric-a-brac for which a Fabergé consultant was the guest curator.

  • He went from painting realistic New York scenes to concocting mythological motifs with titles like Archaic Idol and Tentacles of Memory . In a way, the shift was less abrupt than it seemed, for Rothko traded in one set of underground subjects, the subway, for another, the "depth psychology" strata of the unconscious, with dreamscape bric-a-brac lifted from Surrealist painters Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy.

  • On Old Market Square itself, on summer weekends, you’ll find a colorful farmer’s market alongside stalls of antique bric-a-brac and craftware.


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