Oh, workmen, seen by me sublime, When from the tyrant wrenched ye peace, Can you be dazed by tinselled crime, And spy no wolf beneath the fleece?
But when the pageant in the ring unfolded its tinselled splendor in the Grand Entry, Bud Perkins left earth and walked upon clouds of glory.
For they, and what they never were, and what they never did, merely sugar-coat a dose disguised, and gild the solid pill of fact with tinselled fiction.
Wakes for the dead are always held, and in the case of a child the little one lies in state adorned with gilded wings and tinselled finery.
And, when I remember that the "picture" dress of to-day was the garb of convention yesterday, I can hope that our bespangled nets and tinselled brocades will in due course be encircled with charm from the halo of the bygone.
And to add to all this, the dresses were of the stiffest brocades, decked with gold and silver embroideries and tinselled fringes, velvet and fur increasing the burden.
And if, in a ruthless rending aside of thetinselled illusions which enthrall the stage-struck girl, I have rendered a service, my own suffering will not have been in vain.
There was something infinitely tender in the way she held the boy close to her, mutely comforting his grief, her eyes meeting half defiantly the tinselled magnet of the shop-window, her lips compressed to stop their mutinous tremble.
Very pretty little May looked, all her tinselled curls floating in the breeze, like a golden banner, the blue eyes more starily radiant than ever; the dark riding-habit and jaunty hat and plume the most becoming things in the world.
A black slave was fanning her, and two women, shrouded in veils of tinselled gauze, sat on the bed combing her luxuriant hair.
The under garment, very much en evidence, is a short chemise of tinselled silk gauze, or gold-embroidered muslin so transparent as to leave nothing to the imagination.
She wore some fine jewels, and some folds of tinselledgauze round her head, and looked really handsome and intelligent.
The little girls were dressed in the style of adults, and woretinselled gauze chad[=a]rs or chargats.
They see in his gay rotundity A clumsy stuffed-out dress - They see in the cup he waves on high A tinselled emptiness.
I hear you asking, Why - Why in the world I sing This tawdry, tinselled thing?
We are not permitted to enter a Hindoo temple, but get a glimpse in passing of their tinselled gaudiness.
The altars are ornamented with immense brass storks, with candelabra in their mouths, and tinselled lotus flowers with leaves of brass are much in vogue.
Then there is an embroidered mask, a tinselled toy of a thing but pretty enough.
Of that the little coat of mail andtinselled mask bore witness.
All that seemed lacking was the sawdust ring and a tinselled garb.
Gay banners, brightly comparisoned horses, white wildernesses of circus tents, tinselled clowns, royal ringmasters, joyful strains of music floated through his active brain.
On the other side the vessel, Sang he silver-tinselled maidens, Girded them with belts of copper, Golden rings upon their fingers.
Even there will trouble find thee, There misfortune overtake thee, For the berry-maids would pluck thee, Silver-tinselled girls would get thee.
They see in his gay rotundity A clumsy stuffed-out dress-- They see in the cup he waves on high A tinselled emptiness.
I hear you asking, Why-- Why in the world I sing This tawdry, tinselled thing?
The tinselled hero whom we praise and pay Is twice an actor in a twofold play.
Ye favored fair, whose lightest word Has caused ten thousand errors, Think not your garish, tinselled charms Can blind the King of Terrors.
The whole is covered with a basket-work made of bamboo splits, which is covered again with gilt and tinselled paper.
The spire is covered with gilded and tinselled paper, so as to give it a neat and grand appearance, especially from a distance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinselled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
