Example sentences for: exotica

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

  • Artisans from China’s ethnic minority groups produce a good share of exotica: ornaments and figurines, ceremonial knives and swords, skullcaps and other headgear, colorful dresses and shirts, and shaggy sheepskin coats.

  • Perhaps foreigners will thrill to the exotica, as a sort of high-lit gloss on Jerry Springer territory.

  • He was an impresario and a brand name, hiring talented assistants (several of whom went on to become major photographers in their own right) to shoot, color, and otherwise alter first daguerreotypes, and then--Brady was always up on the latest technical innovations--stereographs, ambrotypes, Imperial salted paper prints, and other photographic exotica.

  • In Chang’an, extravagant palaces and temples were interspersed with markets stocked with exotica from as far away as Byzantium.

  • Since I lived in South Florida, where real tropical exotica abound (poisonous toads, walking catfish, two-foot-long green lizards from Cuba, etc.) it was easy to flummox visitors.


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