Example Sentences

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The U.S. public is quick to tell them so, as Walker himself knows from disappointing sales of his heavily gewgawed 1957 Mercury.

From Time Magazine Archive

The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon’s perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

She was dressed in black, which seemed to take her yet further from the white-clad, gewgawed women about her; and the little hands were white, and the diamond ring glittered.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive