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How to use paraphernalia in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Paraphernalia means miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity. Example: “He has an impressive collection of bicycling paraphernalia, but he doesn't ride very often anymore.”

Examples of paraphernalia by meaning

nounMiscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.

  • He has an impressive collection of bicycling paraphernalia, but he doesn't ride very often anymore.
  • Then the boys arrived, with their camping paraphernalia, and in such bubbling good spirits that the girls were infected with them, for they had become rather lonesome of late.1913, Laura Lee Hope, chapter 21, in The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake
  • People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia—including stations.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and Facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56

More sentences with paraphernalia

  • They decked the bar out with World Cup paraphernalia for June and July.From the entry deck out
  • The entrancement of a child by the bright lights and other paraphernalia of a pantomime is a magical sight.From the entry entrancement
  • We have more boxes of books and paraphernalia than I would have thought possible.2009, Julie Corbin, Tell Me No Secrets, →ISBN. From the entry bin bag
  • A "cyberfashion show" vets the latest ideas in wearable computing and techno paraphernalia.2002, Association for Computing Machinery, Conference abstracts and applications. From the entry cyberfashion
  • At the respective ‘stands’ assigned to them stood the rival foes, each silently adjusting his shearing paraphernalia.1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 87. From the entry stand
  • The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New…. From the entry cowpuncher
  • Nowadays young Chinese and foreigners go to Dali not for cannabis but for more thrilling drugs: cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other Web3 paraphernalia.2025, Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry Dalifornia
  • Winds whipped a large bouncy castle and other inflatable paraphernalia into the air, leaving a trail of destruction at the scenic spot.2019 April 1, Ryan Drillsma, “Dust devil kills two, injures 20 in China's Henan Province”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on…. From the entry Yucheng
  • People assume that with all this dinophilia, and with all the money spent on dinosaur paraphernalia, paleontology must be rolling in dough.2009 August 18, bibibibi, “:(((”, in hun.politika (Usenet). From the entry dinophilia
  • Skull-caps and alchemical paraphernalia surrounded the seventeenth-century quack, whereas his nineteenth-century equivalent might appear top-hatted and suited, evidently a person of learning and ‘quality’.2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN. From the entry suited
  • General Washington, in particular, fumed about camp followers, regularly complaining that pregnant women, small children, chickens, dogs, and domestic paraphernalia drastically diminished his army's mobility.2002, Gary B. Nash, Ronald Schultz, Retracing the Past, page 138. From the entry camp follower
  • In the era of Twain and Grant cigar-smoking paraphernalia consisted mainly of a cigar cutter; the cigar itself was lit with a lucifer (safety match).1996 November, J. E. Lighter, “Blowing Smoke”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015. From the entry lucifer
  • At least one Tea Party rally took heat from the gay community and human rights groups for allowing the sale of straight pride clothing and paraphernalia.2010, Erin McHugh, Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid: Which Party Politics Are You Swallowing?, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry straight pride
  • Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209. From the entry quebrada
  • Two of the group of the tombs completed twenty years later, in the suburbs of Ta-t'ung in Shansi, show among the paraphernalia painted on their north (i.e.1965, Michael Sullivan, “Notes on Early Chinese Screen Painting”, in Artibus Asiae, volume 27, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 249. From the entry Ta-t'ung
  • “It can be a room that’s a depository for all of the husband’s paraphernalia that the wife doesn’t want to see, such as things from the college basketball team,” Mr.2013 April 17, Tim McKeough, “The Resale Advantages of a Man Cave”, in New York Times. From the entry woman cave

Meaning of paraphernalia

  1. noun Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.
  2. noun Objects that a married woman owns, such as clothing and jewellery, apart from her dowry.

Full definition of paraphernalia

Questions about paraphernalia in a sentence

How do you use paraphernalia in a sentence?
Paraphernalia is used as a noun. For example: “He has an impressive collection of bicycling paraphernalia, but he doesn't ride very often anymore.”
What is a short sentence with paraphernalia?
“A "cyberfashion show" vets the latest ideas in wearable computing and techno paraphernalia.”
What does paraphernalia mean?
Paraphernalia means miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.

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