Example Sentences

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A little silk, a few weapons, a curiosity, a nicknack, comprise my stock.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

Nievie, nievie, nicknack, Which hand will ye tak'?

From The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book by Crane, Walter

Booths and cafés and nicknack stalls reach around its sides, and across from us stands a fine official-looking structure of marble, which we learn is the Thermal Establishment.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa