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Example sentences for: trappings

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

Unfortunately, these are trappings that come with billion-dollar price tags attached.
For all its nonsensical trappings, the mummy narrative is serious business, because when other peoples' passionately held taboos are casually flouted it is serious business.
The latest film adaptation of a Henry James novel wins praise for its fidelity to the text and its period trappings.
Conspiracy theorists adopt the trappings of scholarship, touting irrelevant titles and credentials.
As readers of VERBATIM are aware, we give short shrift to the trappings of academia in our pages: we eschew footnotes (with rare exceptions) as well as bibliographies.