Example sentences for: trimmings

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

  • This year as always, Paris fashion has meant fabulous-looking girls slinking along in foot-high hair or plastered-flat hair with grim or giddy hats and stark painted faces, sporting fitted tops, transparent tops, cutout tops, tight skirts slit to here, full skirts trailing to there, floppy pants or skinny pants, trimmings that glitter or flutter, colors that dazzle or puzzle, curled feathers and dyed fur, boiled wool and frosted leather, crushed velvet, shot silk, frayed hemp, and distressed plastic.

  • In the apparel industry, more than a quarter of all workers now produce nonclothing items like curtains, draperies, house furnishings, and automotive trimmings; once again, employment since the 1960s in these areas has doubled, while it has dropped off dramatically for actual garment-making.

  • It's in ivory and dates from 1770, and its flavor and trimmings are consciously echoed by an American wedding dress from about 1880.

  • Correspondingly, employment in automotive and apparel trimmings increased 71.

  • On the high end, automotive and apparel trimmings (SIC 2396) averaged $11.


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