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Sentence Examples What they don't realise is that tinsel and tawdry jokes take the joy out of the season of goodwill. There wasn't a single extra piece of tinsel, no baubles, no lights, no street entertainment at all. Long after everyone has consigned their tinsel and baubles to the loft for another year, it seems Rochdale Council is still in the Yuletide mood. There was a brief flare of white light, and the Goddess vanished, leaving only a smattering of loose tinsel behind. It's amazing what one can do with tinsel, a pot plant, shrub, or tree branches. They loathe tinsel, detest office parties and abhor rum balls of all kinds. They were of velvet, silk, satin, cotton lace, false flowers, the brilliant seeds of the licorice and coquelicot, tinsel, beads, and pinch-beck. Steven's eyes scanned the room immediately for people they knew, while Donnie starred amazed at the lights and tinsel decorating the flat. Although tinsel is very pretty and is a common decoration on trees, your pet may swallow it. During the Christmas festival each one is adorned with decorations, but not gaudy lights and tinsel. If not covered with flocking, tinsel, or fire retardant, trees can be chipped for mulch or used whole to stabilize wetlands. In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys. The once bare evergreen branches are now adorned with silver tinsel and glittering ornaments. The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights. Another reader said hanging Christmas tinsel or aluminium foil strips in trees where fruit bats feed also works well. I am careful not to push loose the strand of tinsel Christmas decorations that I left strung across the room. Despite his tinsel heroics, Jeremy wasn't able to overcome his fear and says he won't be doing it again any time soon. So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines. The tinsel celebrity, now the talk of the town, was flying to Coimbatore for a shoot and she stopped off to pick up her boarding pass. Like them he too had little difficulty entering the glitzy and glamorous tinsel world. Show More Sentences Even seasoned actors and producers find this an appropriate time to launch their sons in tinsel world. The presence of the legendary tinsel queens has been palpable from day one. At the end, she waved to the crowd with a tinsel glamour and sported a forced, yet innocent smile, revealing her missing tooth. I stood beneath the tinsel, understanding her now, her sleek smile, those dangerous eyes, her dares. The colors of green and red decorate many cities, complementing the glittering gold and silver tinsel decorations that adorn Christmas trees. But, given the creative skills and imagination of our tinsel town copywriters, the word takes a different connotation altogether. That explains the absence of carols, tinsel and holly if you come listening through our keyhole and peering through our window this year. I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be. Last night found that his bicycle, ringed round with chains like tinsel on a Xmas tree, had had its seat stolen. Close interaction with those in tinsel town has helped several association members secure jobs. The first hint of Christmas is no longer the tawdry line of tinsel in the high street. Overnight, someone had set up the tree, decorated it with lights, tinsel and baubles. Children decorated the tree with lights, baubles, tinsel, snow and pretend gifts yesterday. Where are we going to find precedents as an alternative to this tinsel culture. He still continues to make style statements with his ensemble and not for nothing is he called the well-dressed man of Telugu tinsel ville. The presence of glamorous tinsel stars add more sheen to any function with frenzied crowd trying to have a glimpse of their favourite stars. With the Christmas tinsel tarnished, the New Year's Eve hangover just a memory, thoughts are turning to summer. Oh you studied creatures, you flimsy confections of powder and resin, set in tinsel and imitation leather! After the tree was done, she turned to the mantle, adding tinsel and pine sprigs to decorate the area around a few red candles. Use natural or painted wooden beads, or strings of cranberries or popcorn to drape the tree instead of tinsel. Show More Sentences Tie in silver oval tinsel under the hook, followed by peach wool tail and two peacock herls. These streams of low-key glamour, as basic as paper chains and tinsel, convert the drabbest space into a winter wonderland. Finding that one verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso. Coat the hook with varnish and wind on the flat tinsel in a clockwise direction whilst the varnish is still wet. Meet Sudeep who is making it big in the Kannada tinsel world. Each Commissioner has done his or her best to decorate their own Christmas tree by hanging a few bits of tinsel of their own upon it. Wind on the oval tinsel in an anticlockwise direction in wide turns. As the week segues into Christmas, the tawdry glitter of the tinsel and plastic Christmas ornaments fails to warm us with a transcedental inner glow. With the tinsel and turkey, crisp days and storybook scenery, it's easy to see why in the Blue Mountains, Christmas comes early. Oh, and this strip of tinsel is already beginning to irritate me. I think they'd prefer a splash of tinsel round the school instead. It's Christmas Eve, and people in the Washington area are abustle with their tinsel and toys, sugarplums and fruitcake, prayers and candlelit services. Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party. Little Molly, all of four years old, hair adorned in silver and red tinsel, has just stepped up from the stalls to sing her favourite nursery rhyme, Sing A Song Of Sixpence. After carving a niche in the tinsel world, Ananth Nagarkatti and M.H.Amarnath, alias Ambarish, entered politics and tried their luck in the new domain. As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history. In fact, a seldom trumpeted trait about the Malayalam film industry has been its rendering a red carpet welcome to its tinsel townhood neighbours! The festival screened as many as 25 short and docufilms of exceptional quality, a visual delight to those who crave for realism in the highly commercialised tinsel world. Show business is not paved with gold for the creators of its tinsel towns. Prospero devises a show of tinsel finery to sidetrack the vulgarians, but he is not present to see Caliban's disillusionment, or his vehement contempt. Show More Sentences These cultural meets are also fast turning out to be platforms for bringing in tinsel stars, notwithstanding the fact that they have nothing to do with academics. Such is their distaste for tinsel distinctions that, throughout the devolved parliament's long, three-year history, they have only awarded themselves one medal. Ratings for the tinsel town extravaganza tend to correlate with the popularity of the films nominated. After a few opening songs, we broke up into small groups and hung wreaths and garlands and tinsel. After I watch Ian Kelsey shoot his tense tinsel scene, I sit with him on a park bench. The two dichotomies are rich with imagery: icy tinsel, glittering snow, mounds of sugar-laden sweets. Discover the secrets of precious tinsel and have a go at making dresses and accessories of the stars! The tinsel town rolled out the red carpet, promising not just money and fame, but an opportunity to break free from mundaneness that defines the middle class. The 46-look collection consisted of drop-waist skirts, cellophane cocktail dresses, and translucent and tinsel fabrics. He had been used to regarding his comrade as a blatant child with an audacity grown from his inexperience, thoughtless, headstrong, jealous, and filled with tinsel courage. Decorations on trees such as angel hair, icicles and tinsel can be dangerous for young children. A remote-controlled quadcopter, outfitted with tinsel and mistletoe, paid a visit to Union Square, where unsuspecting San Franciscans and tourists were prompted to pucker up. I am sorry if I have disappointed some of you by not having included even more of your amendments, but I truly wanted to avoid this report becoming a Christmas tree laden with too much tinsel and too many baubles. These also lured his sons to the tinsel and glamour of towns and cities. O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. The vision of the clown is built up out of vigorous brush-strokes, the clown in the pink brocade tinsel of his garb against the saturated turquoise of the background, constricted by the black contours. Constellation: Tiny tinsel, golden or silvery flashes blend with the smooth finish mortar to give the slight shine of mica reflections on beaches of fine sand. Cliff Yumanski of PSC made a heroic last stand on the last working day before Christmas Eve 2007 and delivered the good news as most of us were beginning to contemplate turkeys, trees, and tinsel. The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character. The collection privée combines art and decoration. Ma's materials, guided by our artistic director Caroline Perrin, are scraped, polished, smoothed, combed, encrusted with sands, and pearly, tinsel or golden flashes. Show More Sentences The Lumi hook can be used as the Type L model on a number of rigs. The difference is the addition of a teaser with two orange and yellow silicone rings and holographic tinsel which add to its attraction for all sea species. Speculations are rife in the tinsel town that the acting legend might move out of Chennai to his new home in Coimbatore. Hopefully things will calm down soon and we can get back to mince pies, tinsel and Love Actually on TV for the zillionth time. So why the fascination with a life that, for all the diversions through tinsel town, stretched from miserable foster homes to barbiturate overdose? Inside, a Super Soaker water gun lay on a bed of iridescent tinsel. While we understand the reluctance of some governments to confront France, a Stability Pact without teeth is a paper dragon breathing tinsel flames. And finally, gold tinsel wire and gold plated wire terminals are used to prevent any corrosion and possible interference in audio signal transfer caused by corrosion. Choose tinsel or artificial icicles of plastic or nonleaded metals. But instead of traditional tinsel, coloured lights and trees, the Bed Management Team at City decided to recreate a trench warfare scene from the First World War. It was a complete bauble bonanza, a trail of sparkling tinsel transporting you through colourcoded rooms packed full with the tackiest decorations you'd ever seen. I believe Birmingham would be well rid of this tinsel tourist trap. Examples from Classical Literature This effect is accurately reproduced by ribbing the body with silver tinsel. The most commonly used for bucktail Streamers is flat tinsel ribbed with oval tinsel or no ribbing at all. If he would abuse the other side a little more, and stick in a little tinsel and calcium light he would be great. The hangings and tinsel not only disfigured the interior of temples, but were a source of danger from their combustibility. Clearly the sans-culotte of Brussels was a mere tinsel imitation of the genuine article at Paris. The picturesque old fought a brave battle with the tinsel and tawdriness of the new. She caught glimpses of glitter and tinsel, wheels and fragments of unidentifiable toys. A pair of hose, the breeches of purple cloth of silver, welted with purple tinsel and gold. With the money which he had in hand he used to buy cheap tinsel wares from Calcutta before the puja holidays. Great amateurs are both sexes of tinsel and perfumery, and they besprinkle themselves with all kinds of essences. The priest tore off his tiara, broke his crozier, and rent his tinsel cope. What's the use of buying tinsel and flim-flam when you're eating milk gravy to save butter and using salt sacks for handkerchiefs? They sacrifice the plainness of nature to the gaudiness of ornament, and the tinsel of wit. What's the use of a lot of tinsel and lacker, if the real metal isn't there? It is of the usual variety, covered with tinsel and adorned with glass balls. That of Monaco is like any other, we find the usual magnificence, and usual tinsel. A black fly ribbed with silver tinsel, black wing with white tips, black hackle, and a yellow head and tail. Another little book or two were lying near, and a common basket of common fruit, and another basket full of strings of beads and tinsel scraps. About the easiest body to make is one of chenille ribbed with tinsel. One may live in paint and tinsel, but one isn't absolutely without a soul. Show More Sentences But I cared not at that moment, whether for mispayment or tinsel. These deeds, if not tinsel, were little better than gold leaf. Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel, broken glass, and rags. The royal robes had proved tinsel, and no longer disguised the man she loved. The crescent moon and the stars filtered down a tinsel light. Life would be no better than candle-light tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been, to issues of longing and constancy. Find more words! 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