Example sentences for: tawdry

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

  • The true marvel of Niagara is how nature manages to triumph over tawdry commercialism, perhaps less strident on the Canadian than on the American side of the border marked by the Falls.

  • Happily, the pretty town has escaped the high-rises and tawdry atmosphere of many coastal resorts, although it does get somewhat overwhelmed by crowds in summer.

  • La Rambla itself relies on a heavy tourist trade in trinkets, such as bullfight posters plastered with your name as the featured matador, leather (or plastic) wineskins called botas, and their glass relative, the porrón; imitation Toledo steel with the engraving painted on; imitation dueling pistols; and tawdry sex-shop toys.

  • Forbes : Its tawdry scheme to try to make money for their friends.

  • "The goal is to offer something quite different from the rather tawdry centres of Macau," it said Wednesday in an editorial.


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