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Sentence Examples I've spent the last few years acquiring the trappings and signs of the middle class. Yet, despite all these trappings of success and personal happiness, of late he has been questioning exactly where his own life is going. Unfortunately, I bought into all the trappings that money and success, you know, could buy. Here there were many final reminders of how people live here with few material trappings. They undermined the social hierarchy even as they left its outward trappings intact. But super-power trappings offer only a flimsy mask for the realities of poverty and are no substitute for grassroots economic development. He was a man who never learned to quit, a man who always sought success in his undertakings but never the trappings of success. Rigs need to be tough, but streamlined and functional without any unnecessary trappings. In a sense, his undoing was the fact that he made no secret of how he revelled in success and its trappings. He deserves his financial success and the trappings of wealth that come from working hard. Of course I've got all the trappings of success, but it hurts when friends treat me like some circus freak. The title refers to New Zealanders who have forsaken material trappings and joined the Buddhist faith. Do tourists bring more than this to see the Queen and the associated trappings? While distinctly fleshy now, sporting all the trappings of wealth and success, he still pushes life to its limit. My father, a flamboyant millionaire, enjoyed spending his money on toys and the trappings of success. They built a promenade, bandstand, open-air swimming pool and all the other trappings of a genteel seaside resort. Have you ever wanted to live in a rural setting, yet enjoy all trappings associated with living in the heart of the town? Normally on such trips my notes run to lavish hotel trappings, distances between monuments and the number of oohs and aahs per scenic vista. But for all this luxury and high-society living, I'm glad to say that we never fell into the trappings of drug-addiction and male nymphomania. My companion seemed not to bother with any of the trappings of image which worry other girls of her age and for that her cool image was boosted. Show More Sentences Questioning doctrine and the trappings of religion doesn't mean that Jones' work should be read as sacrilegious or spiritually ungrounded. The hearing had all the trappings of a drumhead proceeding, held only for the purpose of publicly scapegoating workers and supervisors. At his best, Reynolds manages simultaneously to acclaim and to dispense with the trappings of fame. It also includes used animal trappings such as harnesses, saddles, halters, reins, rope and chain. It is to his credit that he has long resisted deification and hero worship, indeed all the elaborate trappings of being a living symbol. The fences and barriers, speed bumps and empty watchmen's huts are the trappings of wealth, the buffers of avarice. As a thorough break from London's quotidian chaos, whilst retaining all the trappings of urban civilisation, I can recommend it thoroughly. The chilling realities of street life are skilfully combined with the familiar trappings of adolescence to create a tense, powerful drama. And the president's habit of roughing people up with jocular derision doesn't work as well when the trappings of power aren't all around him. Indeed, the procedures and trappings of the hunt were adapted for military purposes. Now, in our new climate of national affluence, wealth and all its trappings seem available to anybody determined enough to have them. The trappings of black power, Afro clothing, and plaited hair have appeared and disappeared. He doesn't go in for the trappings of stardom, preferring a quiet family life. And it has all the trappings of luxury including a king-size bed, luxurious bathtub in the room and a butler service. We have always tried to make her see that the inner worth of people is what is important, not the expensive trappings on the outside. The trappings of the prima donna can never be a substitute for genuine musicianship. So, naturally, humanist funerals tend to be simple and unadorned, stripped of any ritualistic trappings. No knights in shining armour, medieval trappings or masses of red hair are necessary for Knightly to express a Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. Here's another season full of crazed killers, zombified corpses, brutal stabbings, and all the rest of the trappings that the fans enjoy. What they lack in trappings, they've made up for in resourcefulness, particularly in the area of sales. Show More Sentences They may be knee-deep in paisley but always keep the songs on a leash and never rely too much on nostalgic trappings. Status is a funny thing, especially considering that today's must-have trappings are likely to seem ridiculous to future generations. If we're all cashing in our hipster cred for bourgeois trappings, then at least we're doing it together. Headboards, footboards, and side rails can be unsafe, especially if a baby is left alone in bed with these trappings. As he has evidently now discovered, the trappings of high office are not limited to posh perquisites and media glare. Because each of them exists as a parody of a different genre, each episode should take on the trappings of that genre. We freed the horses from their trappings, and I went about setting up our camp. I am all for American regional cookery and the trappings of taste, custom, and parlance that go with each. Founded in Seville in 1892, El Caballo is a manufacturer of harnesses and leather trappings. It has many of the trappings of a five-star hotel, but the service can be a bit patchy. But Maguire's pub of Manorhamilton in neighbouring County Leitrim has all the trappings of a truly historic and hospitable hostelry. The secularly minded writers and readers of newspapers, many of them suspicious of religious trappings, might call it a sham. Thankfully, this will be the last time for a while that the director relies on such Tinseltown trappings to tell his story. She is a serious-minded young woman who has not had her head turned by the trappings of fame. Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia. Want a parade saddle, complete with scrolled pewter trappings and conchos? Some streams of Buddhism have the trappings of worship, rituals, and semi-divine beings, but others do not. But the old city, site of the Bull Run, has the inevitable trappings of a theme park for aficionados of the vicarious kind. Lord Woolf's challenge to the legal profession comes after he replaced the traditional trappings of Latin phrases and legal jargon as part of a review of civil courts. In addition to the throne, the ceremony did include the presence of some of the trappings one might expect at a coronation, including the royal robes and the Crown regalia. Show More Sentences It amazes him how people get seduced by the bogus trappings of fame. Your future holds the trappings of a rock 'n' roll superstar lifestyle. Some may even be cheap knock-offs, made in imitation of the originals by later peoples who didn't understand the theory, and just aped the outside trappings. With the trappings of representation obliterated, the paintings offer a lean and stripped down physicality defined by specific proportion, luminosity and surface quality. With his father's money and his own ever-growing influence he began to adopt the trappings of power, wearing purple robes and employing scores of attendants. The bullet fee well symbolizes the harshness of a brutal police state that cloaks itself in the trappings of religion. Twees are not hipsters or ravers or neo-grungers, though you could have trappings of all that. It foreshadows the surrealists, as he shows the monkeys playing in the jungle with a backscratcher and a milk bottle, trappings of civilisation in the savage world. These burly, barrel-chested men aren't quite comfortable within their macho trappings, but act as allegorical tools to explore issues of contemporary masculinity. Her diaries and letters reveal a woman determined to succeed as a singer and who was chuffed with her success and the trappings that came with it. So who are we to condemn the materialistic trappings of our stars? Even so, he is not totally immune to the trappings of success. However, it lacks most of the trappings usually associated with the genre. Plus, no snooty attitudes or other conventional store trappings allowed. But while there are trappings of stability, the times are anything but normal. The state believes that re-creating some of the trappings of military life in a prison setting might reduce recidivism. Mainstream films, in the end, always look like lifestyle advertisements, flaunting cover-model babes, expensive cars and other trappings of the monied classes. Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them. While thematically they rail against these trappings, the whole album sounds like a slow process of ultimate defeat, the band seemingly unable to shake the ties they deride. Little bits of barbecue had escaped their white-bread trappings, and scattered here and there were errant bits of coleslaw, but I could forgive a little sloppiness. Show More Sentences Woven into the narrative are G-chat logs, passive-aggressive emails, and all the trappings of the Frivolous Now. Knives, knuckles, grease, girls, cars, guitars, bull fiddles and leather, all the trappings of a live fast, die young desperate rock 'n' roll act. Now too weak to move, Willow stared in horror as Buffy's face transformed itself into the demonic visage that all vampires hid beneath the trappings of humanity. In common we all share sword, helmet, byrnie, the trappings of war. Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur. Excited graduates walk up and down, parading their finery of gowns, hoods and mortarboards seemingly oblivious to the fact that these are colonial trappings. The song is just about resistance to heavy handed authority when the swagman in fact rejected most of the trappings of society, either out of necessity or choice. The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers. Surely the New Age philosophy is about letting go of material trappings, emptying your mind of the chaos of 21st century life and looking inward for answers. As the trappings of cosmopolitanism began appearing, with smart cafes and trendy bookstores down the road from rusting cars in front yards, resentment mounted. Another brave step, though it might seem very trivial is that he has avoided digressing from the singular plot by not invoking songs and other kitsch trappings. When the guillotine dropped on King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it might have been thought that France had abandoned all trappings of aristocracy. Weapons and horse trappings have been found in the bog at Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey and are interpreted as votive offerings cast into a lake. They typically do not receive the honorific forms of address nor do they bear the symbolic trappings of a publicly appointed judge. The Phoenicians not only traded in tangible goods, but were also instrumental in transporting the trappings of culture. I simply wish we could tone down the royal trappings just a smidge. The badge would also be embroidered or appliqued on standards, horse trappings, livery uniforms, and other belongings. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. However, novels slowly divested themselves of the Arthurian and chivalric trappings and came to centre on more ordinary or picaresque figures. Sand bars and clay banks tempt the dawdler to rest and relax, giving the sense that the trappings of life beyond can wait. Show More Sentences Furthermore, Oliver Cromwell increasingly took on more of the trappings of monarchy. You Can Look became a Blues Brothers-style barnstormer, while Further On shed its rock'n'roll trappings in favour of stark simplicity. You can't be committed to peace and still be committed to guns, bombs, balaclavas and the trappings of a ragtag army. There is the Professor's nightly bath, for instance, which has all the solemn trappings of a royal balneation. In the case of the Cybermen the Vaderesque trappings, and the incongruous displays of emotion, were rapidly stripped away. The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash. Although he has a deep respect for the talented people he's worked with, he is not particularly star-struck, nor overly impressed by the trappings of wealth and fabulosity. The Calvinism of the reformers led by Knox resulted in a settlement that adopted a Presbyterian system and rejected most of the elaborate trappings of the Medieval church. In 1698 travel writer Celia Fiennes wrote of Carlisle as having most of the trappings of a military town and was rife with alcohol and prostitutes. Thanks to the likes of James Bond, the trappings of spy-dom have long attracted jealous eyes and vivid imaginations of many who long for a walk on the wild side of espionage. He retained the elevation of the host and chalice, while trappings such as the Mass vestments, altar, and candles were made optional, allowing freedom of ceremony. He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth. Despite such harkings to the Old Muscovite past, the trappings of European life inevitably followed once the Russians began to live in European settings. With so many labels, so much fashion information and incessant celebrity style hype, it seems we all can't get enough of the scene and its material trappings. No archaeological evidence survives of Druidry, although a number of burials made with ritual trappings and found in Kent may suggest a religious character to the subjects. Yet single-mindedness and dedication are traits to be admired in an era when so many are prepared to settle for less than their best because the trappings of stardom arrived. Fans of arcadey sports titles will be in heaven, as despite its cutesy trappings, Mario Strikers adheres pretty much to Midway's proven gonzo sports formula. As the towns urbanised and the hamlets became villages, the trappings of modern life were reflected in the buildings required to sustain new and growing communities. As election years go, this one's got the trappings of a real heartstopper. Examples from Classical Literature Get out of these trappings of woe, and tell us if you ever saw a windier, grayer, meaner day in all your lives. The destrier was newly saddled and bridled, and showed proudly in his rich gay trappings. We bedeck and bedrape our poetry with trappings without which it is better off. He had the substance of power, the reality of leadership, whosesoever the trappings and the title might be. Nothing could exceed the beauty of their proportions and the splendour of their trappings. Perhaps he noted their sleek quarters, the glittering trappings on their backs and their gingery action. All the trappings, including saddle and saddle-cloth, in green and aubergine. If they are not soldiers, why do they wear these trappings of the battle-field? He supplied the trappings of science, without the authority to override O'Donnell. The money cowry is also used as ornaments on the trappings of horses and elephants, as well as on the persons of men and women. Then came the sharp click of the Morse code and after an interval with radiant face the elder lad wriggled out of his trappings. The trappings of her palfrey were of finest embroidery, her bridle was a chain of gold. The trappings of horse soldiers are evidently made as noisy as possible. His sword-sheath, breastplate, and trappings were clear and bright. It has been long years since you revisited Earth, and never before in the trappings of Mars. You must have yellow faces and black beards, and your apparel and trappings must be those least likely to arouse suspicion. It will be easy after that to secrete both the horse and his trappings. A white mule with red trappings, led by a varlet, carried Sir Nigel's own napery and table comforts. The heavy cart-horses slipped and stamped upon the rough stones, shaking their bells and trappings. Like Tom Sawyer, he loved the glare and trappings of leadership. Show More Sentences And I had also noticed that his shabby trappings but illy comported with his dignified and noble bearing. His gym is in a corrugated iron building that lacks many of the trappings of modern fitness rooms. She swung her moleskin trappings about and pointed to the box. The tradesman and his clerk clank with their martial trappings as they pursue their vocations. The number of guards and gorgeousness of their trappings quite usually denote the status of the hotel. The metal trappings of the harnesses shone dazzlingly, and the wheels were revolving disks that threw off rays of light. Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic and his trappings will have to serve that mood too. He was a fine, haughty-looking savage, fancifully decorated, and mounted on a high-mettled steed, with gaudy trappings and equipments. When Robin saw this train drawing near, with flash of jewels and silk and jingle of silver bells on the trappings of the nags, he looked sourly upon them. Even among the gorgeous trappings of the men of Helium and the visitors from distant empires those of the stranger were remarkable for their barbaric splendor. Many of them looked more like Indians than white men in their garbs and accoutrements, and their very horses were caparisoned in barbaric style, with fantastic trappings. The person of African descent is psycho-culturally necrosed having been daunted and stupefied by the trappings and flimflams of Western and Eurasian civilizations. After partaking of my evening meal of cheese-like food and vegetable milk I sought out Sola, whom I found working by the light of a torch upon some of Tars Tarkas' trappings. There were pall-bearers on horseback, with the richest scarfs and hatbands, and even the under-bearers had trappings of woe which were of a good well-priced quality. The ivory had been abandoned tusk by tusk as the blacks gave out, and along the trail of death was strewn the camp equipage and the horse trappings of a hundred men. All were splendidly armed, and my Saxon authority records at great length their devices, their colours, and the embroidery of their horse trappings. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of trappings? Words that rhyme with trappings What is the plural of trappings? What is the adjective for trappings? What is the noun for trappings? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words trapping trappers trapper trapped Trappe trapline Trappist traps trash Trash trashcan trash can 9-letter Words Starting With t tr tra trap trapp trappi trappin trapping