Sentence examples for knickknack from inspiring English sources
The word “knickknack” is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a small decorative item, such as a trinket or souvenir, displayed in a house or room. Example sentence: The shelves of her living room were filled with knickknacks from her travels around the world.
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Alternative spelling of knick-knack
Bauble comes from another old French word, baubel, for a child's toy, or a showy but worthless trinket or knickknack.
Any knickknack knockoff that can possibly be sewn out of silk brocade is piled high in this cubbyhole of a shop — cosmetics pouches ($4), wallets and change purses ($2), eyeglass cases ($2), business-card holders ($4), envelopes for packing shirts in suitcases ($20), shoe bags ($3), and loads more.
Connie runs a Third World knickknack store, but she believes herself to be an expert on the law and on real-estate statutes.
It is printed on a single sheet of foolscap, and the writing is so small that it's illegible; then again, the knickknack Constitution isn't meant to be read.
In downtown Udine, a pastry shop and knickknack shop displays the bottles — Hitler, but also Popes John XXIII and John Paul II — in the storefront window.
Mr. Dennis, a motivational speaker, relies on an expanded definition (and Anglicized spelling) of the Yiddish word "tchotchke," which refers to a trinket or knickknack; he uses it to mean "stuff that gets out of control".
But for the many anonymous sculptors who toil in the studios in and around Carrara, history is probably not what they were thinking about while sculpturing Madonnas, Renaissance-style lawn ornaments and virtually every other conceivable knickknack (bust of Mussolini, anyone?) that wind up for sale in roadside shops all over the area.
The store opened in May, & Mr B., who is here on an extended visit originally made on behalf of a knickknack-exporting firm he owns in India, has a number of Indian objects in his store but he sells mostly kites.
The show's sets are familiar variations on the Midwest Proletariat décor of "Roseanne": charmless diner, dreary bowling alley, knickknack-infested living room.
The room has a Victorian air with brocade-look wallpaper and an old-fashioned gas stove surrounded by a white knickknack-friendly mantel.
There are a pizza place, an ice cream parlor and a combination bookstore-knickknack-fishing-gear-hardware emporium.
