Sentence examples for trappings and from inspiring English sources

Because phones and their trappings — and a signal is the most important trapping — are so central to modern life.

The office was accompanied by all of the trappings and sumptuary behaviour typical of despotic states.

Take away its period trappings, and it might as well be now.

Naturally you can buy its trappings and contribute to its causes.

"But you strip away all the trappings, and it's still about little boys playing baseball".

Tony - "TC" - acquired the trappings, and the insecurities, of the postwar upwardly mobile man.

You cannot help wondering if he chose the right trappings and tableau.

Last week, the Enron affair, if it had not already, acquired all these trappings, and more.

The horse was steel blue, with rose trappings and gleaming gold hooves.

Inside "Back to Blood," Wolfe's longtime readers will find any number of his old trappings and tropes.

It's a series that inevitably draws comparisons with "Downton Abbey," since they share the same upper-class trappings and totems.