Sentence examples for my trappings from inspiring English sources

"I was trapped by my trappings," she'll tell you, "now I just want trimmings".

I became aware that I had until this point positioned myself, both within the conversation but also literally on the floor with my trappings of note taking, as a student, eagerly listening to the teacher who would educate me on their experience, taking notes and asking pertinent questions.

I went out of my way to have Gavyn like me, and also to convey to his mother that in spite of my bohemian trappings, I was a responsible adult at my core.

The arguments might not sound so good to someone with a better mind; but my mental trappings are as they are, and I am always on the brink of assenting — it is almost a subconscious assent.

My installation, Inner Trappings, for Camp Flog Gnaw, focuses on some of the personal hangups relating to making work.

Despite the emotional trappings, my Dodger teammates and I are pretty damn comfortable on a baseball field, even this baseball field, and as we went through our own warm-up drills -- stretching, running, playing catch, infield practice -- the differences between this ball field and every other ball field I have ever played on during my five-decade "career" as a ballplayer began to melt away.

As I sit on the same old dun-colored Craigslist couch I've had for a decade, eating last night's leftover chicken tikka at 9 30 a.m., I scan my apartment for the trappings of wealth and minor fame that my recent "Jeopardy!" success has surely afforded me.

Ever since he got to town, though, rather than appearing as a god, Dionysus has been busy dressing the women of Thebes "in the trappings of my mysteries".

As soon as I've done that, I'm not "Beverley Knight", I'm just "Bev"; it's like taking all the trappings of my character off.

Stung, she has made sure since then to hang on to a secretary who "holds a mirror up when she notices me getting intimidating or too abrupt, an effect only amplified by the trappings of my current office".

Clearly they know this matters in terms of people choosing where to work, and that itself is an encouraging sign, even though in my experience the apparent trappings of the willingness to accommodate family life are far greater than the actual willingness to accommodate.