(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
(n.) The fool's club.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
(2) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(3) Baubles and tinsel lose their shine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sales of Christmas baubles fell.
(4) As if the past 50 years had never happened, as if one's own sexual destiny were a meaningless bauble, to be hung off the first john with a bank account who shows an interest.
(5) Marks & Spencer is offering fruit juice laced with glitter and smoked salmon topped with gold leaf; Sainsbury will be selling edible glistening Christmas baubles made from chocolate; while Asda is offering a glitter-topped version of the traditional pudding.
(6) An industry bauble, however deserved or appreciated, is unlikely to tempt her back into the spotlight.
(7) Will they reach for the How to Spend It supplement of the FT, looking for luxury baubles?
(8) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(9) Istiklal made Broadway look like a neon bauble, and the Champs Élysée seem insipid.
(10) He wasn't at Stamford Bridge long but they won the FA Cup to give him yet another bauble for his bulging trophy room back in Florida, where he had moved with his wife, Clar, who grew up in a Jamaican family in Brooklyn, and their three children.
(11) Meanwhile, up the road, the actor Joanna Lumley wants a different bauble.
(12) Many struggling newspaper groups would not look askance at an offer to become such a bauble in such difficult times and rumours still flourish that Lebedev could buy the Independent.
(13) The only problem is, by indulging their excitement, we're nurturing in them the same mindless-drone impulse that leads us to work like dogs in order to buy baubles with bubbles in.
(14) The Christmas tree was knocked over, the man stumbled and fell amongst the glass baubles which had fallen with the tree.
(15) Their pleasure is to be found in having their lovely friends measuring the weight of their baubles, and being awestruck."
(16) Hundreds of delicate bamboo baubles hung from the walls.
(17) To be alive on Planet Earth is to be pinned by an unseen gravitational force beyond your control to the surface of an almighty bauble of death cluttered with sharp objects, death traps, diseases, disasters and killers concocting new and exotic means of inflicting agony upon your person, all of it revolving silently in an infinite and eternal vacuum, the sheer insensate vastness of which is simply too ghastly for the human mind to contemplate.
(18) He'd broken the office Christmas tree and stamped on the glass baubles.
(19) In doing this, he latterly admitted to adding baubles and colouring.
(20) Earlier, the London flyweight Charlie Edwards, a decorated amateur, became a seven-fight professional champion when he won all 10 rounds against the 27-year-old Belfast Cockney Luke Wilton to win the vacant WBC international “silver” belt, a bauble which might prove useful as a negotiating chip to bigger things.
Sceptre
Definition:
(n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
(n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
(v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(2) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(3) Of the two most successful imprints, with a pair of titles longlisted, Chatto (Flanagan, Mukherjee) is in the top group, but Sceptre (Hustvedt, David Mitchell) is a mere third-tier outfit in Booker terms, entitled to only two submissions.
(4) Much was made of the royal couple's modernity (the aeroplanes, radio and television), and the young Queen's femininity, able to juggle children and a handbag, along with the crown of state and orb and sceptre.
(5) It comes amid a spate of knife killings in London that has prompted Scotland Yard to renew its anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre .
(6) The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions by Rolf Dobelli is published by Sceptre, £9.99.
(7) Wintering, inspired by Plath's Ariel poems, by Kate Moses is published by Sceptre
(8) More powerfully still, we are made to visualise the horrific scenes in Rosenberg's most ambitious war poem, "Dead Man's Dump", from its very first lines: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And the rusty stakes like sceptres old To stay the flood of brutish men Upon our brothers dear.
(9) I hesitated before taking the tiny hollow sceptre, but not for too long.
(10) But the Prince of Wales was determined not to let go of the only woman who had truly understood his loneliness and he and Camilla gradually began to be accepted as a couple by the ordinary people of this sceptred isle.
(11) The head of the Metropolitan police’s anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre, has admitted past failures in engaging with communities most affected by youth violence, amid criticism of the force’s latest strategy to tackle the problem.
(12) A mace head, a high-status object comparable to a sceptre, and a little bowl burnt on one side, which he believes may have held incense, suggest the dead could have been religious and political leaders and their immediate families.
(13) And, yet, if the Tory manifesto is more or less par for the course, although a bit too leftish in its message for the old party faithful (who wants riff-raff joining in the governance of these "sceptr'd isles"?
(14) The Met launched the eighth phase of Operation Sceptre at the beginning of the month, making 511 arrests and recovering 380 knives.
(15) When it’s a life and death situation, where you are seriously thinking that you’re going to be killed, you don’t care what the law says because the law’s not going to be there to protect you.” As part of the Operation Sceptre initiative, police said they were also recruiting community “role models” to deliver anti-knife messages to young people.
(16) The 18th-century Spanish crown and 17th-century sceptre were displayed rather than put on the king's head or in his hand, no foreign dignitaries or royals were invited and the afternoon reception for 2,000 guests featured finger foods rather than an elaborate banquet.
(17) The deaths have come amid a spate of stabbings in the capital that has spurred the Metropolitan police to revisit its anti-knife initiative , Operation Sceptre, with the formation of a dedicated 80-strong “murder suppression” unit.