Example sentences for: trappings

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

  • Next there are the semilegit crossovers between country and rock or folk--Wilco, the Old 97's, Son Volt, Iris DeMent--who adorn themselves in the trappings of country but use a studied, shambling rawness to appeal to rock fans.

  • Not a slick exploitation film with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Several critics take the exact opposite stance: The Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan calls it "an unapologetically sleazy ordeal that delights in twisting the knife, a tawdry piece of work whose only raison d'être is making the skin crawl in the name of box office profit."

  • It is an active Lamaist Buddhist shrine, with many Tibetan trappings.

  • The power of race, however, derives not from its pseudoscientific markings but from its cultural trappings.

  • But Barry recognized that the trappings of power were tenuous, too.


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