Example sentences for: trinkets

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

  • Its twin belfries loom over the Spanish Steps (Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti), eternal hang-out of Rome’s golden youths, lovers, peddlers of trinkets and the occasional hustler.

  • 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.

  • The New York Times leads with the arrest of seven Mexican immigrants on charges of smuggling into this country and then virtually enslaving dozens of deaf Mexicans selling trinkets in the New York City subways.

  • However, you don’t need a large budget to buy trinkets, as there is a plethora of popular street jewelry for sale with leather, semi-precious stones, and crystals.

  • The Mexicans were smuggled into the United States, miserably housed, and forced to peddle $1 trinkets (in places like the subway) to make money for their "pimps."


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