Example sentences for: paraphernalia

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

  • In various surveys conducted by dictionary publishers over the past years, it has emerged that the main use to which people put dictionaries is to find the correct spelling of a word; the next most frequent use is to determine the meaning of a word; determination of pronunciaton, etymology, synonyms, usage notes, and any other paraphernalia offered comes low on the list.

  • 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.

  • Visitors then step inside the 75-ft- (23-m-) long vessel to examine the paraphernalia of the pirate’s trade that line the corridors and decks.

  • The scenery was not always breathtaking, so a new word game (verbal, no paraphernalia) was needed to keep us awake.

  • 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.


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