Mary has been full of her knickknacks to-day," said her old uncle, joining them.
First, because people will not be hurried into eating at railroad speed, and next, because there is better cooking of standard dishes and fewer knickknacks at the hotel tables than in America.
He modestly asked Father Gerard's advice upon his project of painting, amusing himself with the knickknacks about the apartments, picking out by instinct the best engravings and canvases of value.
I can not help smiling when I think of some of the so-called "Japanese" drawing-rooms of our Parisian fine ladies, overcrowded with knickknacks and curios and hung with coarse gold embroideries on exported satins.
You won't help make him a free American again; you'll just help give him knickknacks so he won't rebel against his slavery.
She could not see any very expensive object without wanting to possess it, and so she constantly surrounded herself with the wrecks of bouquets and costly knickknacks and was the happier the more her passing fancy cost.
In the course of two days she sold what she could smuggle out of the house in the way of knickknacks and jewelry and then disappeared, taking with her ten thousand francs and never even warning the porter's wife.
Impervious to that scrutiny, Miss Coblenz moved a tiptoe step or two farther into the room, lifting off her hat, staring and smiling through a three-shelved cabinet of knickknacks at what she saw far and beyond.
There were knickknacks for the toilet-table, pictures for the wall, a little book-case of hanging shelves.
You must have a dressing-case, a lady's writing-table, and all kinds of knickknacks for your rooms.
She made her friends give her bibelots and knickknacks of no particular value, to which she attached some particular legend--absolute inventions for the greatest part--in order to sell them for a thousand times their original cost.
The furniture was commonplace to a degree; such pictures and knickknacks as were of value had been given to her, or acquired in the manner I have already described; the laces and trinkets were, undoubtedly, not purchased with her own money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knickknacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
