But of course we know that these people mean it is impossible for them to acquire the trinkets and gimcracks and pleasures that urban extravagance offers.
No matter how many trinkets and gimcracks the manufacturing and processing industries make, this cannot be called production; we must in fact regard this as the consumption of resources and energy.
I, “drop your gimcracks on this dirty place—what for?
Let me know if the gimcracks come safe--I mean the book, etc.
Our masons, though excellent workmen, are too little accustomed to the gimcracks of their art, to be trusted with the execution of a bravura plan, without constant inspection.
She had a way of bantering off the bonnets and gimcracks that was raly curious.
By-am-by he made me put on a red shirt, and sich a heap of nigger gimcracks as would've made you larf only jest to look at.
I dessay as I can make shift to get down without the ladder; an' I'll leave all these here gimcracks just as I found 'em.
He used to go out through the county with a pack on his back, sellin' gimcracks to country people.
Somewhere, somehow, he scraped together a meagre capital of a few dollars, and with this he opened a tiny cheap-John shop down on Market Square, where he sold gimcracks to darkies and poor whites.
Sir Hans Sloane contributed of his own collection some of the refuse gimcracks that were to be found in Salter's "museum.
Her husband bade her buy laces, millinery, jewels, and gimcracks of all sorts.
If I am in authority in such a case, I turn all gimcracks bodily out, substituting the plainest articles of furniture to be found in the house.
Not yet," said she; "you have got to mend the broken gimcracks next.
Such fugitive gimcracks as they had brought away with them decorated the little salon.
You have been roving over the mountains, making unseemly comparisons of Mont Blanc with a loaf of sugar, while I was working myself to death searching for gimcracks for you.
The porter took me round to the cases, and told me a great number of fibs concerning their contents: there was the harp of Brian Borou, and the sword of some one else, and other cheap old gimcracks with their corollary of lies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gimcracks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
