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:

  • A late painting like Christine Lerolle Embroidering (1897), with its complex weave of frames within frames, is a veritable catalog of the craftsmanlike bric-a-brac Renoir admired: the embroidery frame constructed of bamboo; William Morris wallpaper; a Japanese vase; the rough-hewed paintings of Degas and Renoir himself that the connoisseurs are inspecting in the background.

  • You’ll find bric-a-brac and second-hand clothes at Porte de Montreuil, in the 20th, open Saturday, Sunday, and Monday mornings.

  • Elandsgracht and Looiersgracht in the Jordaan both have a market for cheaper antiques, collectibles, and bric-a-brac.

  • The many interesting antiques shops here vouch for the authenticity of old Spanish and Puerto Rican furniture, clocks, and 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.


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