Words similar to paraphernalia
Example sentences for: paraphernalia
How can you use “paraphernalia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The Slate/Fool strategic alliance will consist of lavish expressions of mutual admiration, cross-links between our sites at even the least plausible opportunity, and exchanges of T-shirts, baseball caps, and other logo paraphernalia.
To the delighted curiosity of Japanese visitors, the houses are filled with the kind of Victorian paraphernalia that is becoming increasingly popular in modern Japan: damask-covered furniture, an upright piano, a massive mahogany sideboard, and a grand old gramophone with a big horn, manufactured by the Nippon-Ophone Company.
The Maritime Museum in the old courthouse on Bastion Square contains some fine models and navigational paraphernalia of the merchant ships of yore — whalers, steamers, and old Hudson’s Bay paddle-wheelers.
When private force failed, employers persuaded local and state governments to suspend due process of law, arrest suspected troublemakers, initiate mass deportations, and crush strikes with National Guardsmen--using what Commons and his associates called all "the paraphernalia of dictatorship."
The differences are hard to discern, but no matter, for the book is a user-friendly excursion through the history of the language, with many good examples of loanwords, derivations, and other linguistic incunabula, curiosa, and paraphernalia interestingly presented in a lively fashion by a good writer.