Sentence examples for status items from inspiring English sources

My other daughter only likes status items.

If she felt better about herself, she probably wouldn't need status items to prop herself up.

In the early years of the twentieth century, electric fans were expensive status items in the homes of the wealthy, costing about seven hundred dollars in today's money.

In Mongolia, finished cashmere products aren't the status items they have become in the West, even among the residents of the capital city.

Eric's life is delineated with none of Mr. DeLillo's usual sardonic humor or keen eye for the telling detail, but with the sort of rote recitation of status items found in "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".

And despite an enormous push for status items like truffles and caviar on menus a few years ago, restaurateurs have found that most diners do not necessarily want foie gras to sustain them.

(Nothing like re-experiencing a shopper's high and bagging a status item without having to expend any cash.

A Hamptons Bag With Bounce It may not pass muster at the Maidstone Club, but the latest status item in the Hamptons is a homage to the Hermès Birkin bag -- in shrill jelly-bean-colored rubber.

More recently, two-way pagers, like the Blackberry, made by Research in Motion, have become a status item for executives who want to send e-mail on the run.

In an economy where all too many do not have nowhere near enough, it's becoming something of a status item to show you can throw money around – even if you are secretly expecting your guests to foot a portion of the bill for your vanity.

Like the relatively cheap Toyota Prius, the $500 iPad is a status item even B-listers can afford.