Sample Sentences for
paraphernalia
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  • On weekends, after work, or in the middle of the night, they'd go for a drive that always ended at a drug house, hanging out for hours on dirty couches around coffee tables cluttered with beer cans, ashtrays, and drug paraphernalia.  (source)
  • Each had decorated his or her space elaborately but tastefully—one office full of sailing paraphernalia, most of it seeming airborne, hanging from the exposed beams, another arrayed with bonsai trees.  (source)
  • But deeper than this lies the original motive, the never-questioned instinct that first led to the seizure of power and brought doublethink, the Thought Police, continuous warfare, and all the other necessary paraphernalia into existence afterwards.  (source)
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  • They were on ponies, and each pony was slung about with all kinds of baggages, packages, parcels, and paraphernalia.  (source)
    paraphernalia = items that accompany a given activity
  • The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born.  (source)
  • I looked around at the military paraphernalia stacked around Chuck.†  (source)
  • Minerva gathered her paraphernalia and stuffed it angrily back into her bag.†  (source)
  • Why don't you go out and see what kind of drug paraphernalia is out there.†  (source)
  • Tante Jans, who loved medical paraphernalia of every kind, took a tremendous fancy to the new doctor and from then on consulted him as often as her finances would permit.†  (source)
  • An insurance agent required a desk at home, where he could fill out the never-ending series of reports and keep the documents and the other paraphernalia of his trade.†  (source)
  • Inside a lot of kids had been bringing things up to the altar—drug paraphernalia and stuff like that; they were breaking off their old bonds.†  (source)
  • Several folding chairs filled the center of the small space while detectors, oscilloscopes, and other paraphernalia lined the narrow table against the north wall.†  (source)
  • In addition to the paraphernalia taped to her walls, she has a dozen china teacups filled with plastic glitter rings, and silver rings with amber stones, and glass rings with pressed flowers.†  (source)
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