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:

  • The monosyllables are the meaning of the poem--the acting-out of a literary philosophy, which is to hammer new beauty from well-worn words and modern bric-a-brac.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.


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