How to use tinselly in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "tinselly" and check conjugation/comparative form for "tinselly". Mastering all the usages of "tinselly" from sentence examples published by news publications.
For example, the answer to 17A's "First female recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award in film" is JUDY GARLAND, with GARLAND being the tinselly or perhaps popcorn-festooned thing you drape around the branches.
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" Peter Dreier of Occidental College observed that "Purists often derided the Kingston Trio for watering down folk songs in order to make them commercially popular and for remaining on the political sidelines during the protest movements of the 1960s." A series of scathing articles had previously appeared over several years in Sing Out! magazine, a publication that combined articles on traditional folk music with political activism. Following the Trio's performance at the 1959 festival, folk music critic Mark Morris wrote "What connection these frenetically tinselly showmen have with a folk festival eludes me...except that it is mainly folk songs that they choose to vulgarize.
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Also a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic was her massive saga of the slave- trade and Bristol shipping, The Sun Is My Undoing (1941); this was the first part of a trilogy, but the remaining volumes were far less popular. Though never quite accepted by literary critics- Sun..., for example, was described as "vigorous but tinselly"- she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1951. Her two volumes of autobiography, Looking Glass (1966) and Pier Glass (1968) offer some delightful views of the English creative set from the 1920s to the 1950s. Her home at the time of her death was the cottage she had shared with Nicholson during the last years of his life, in the village of Blewbury, Berkshire, bought after their London home was destroyed by a Second World War bomb.
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