What's the difference between silverware and trophies?

Silverware


Definition:

  • (n.) Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their only problem now is finding somewhere to keep the first major piece of silverware in their history: the DW Stadium does not even have a purpose‑built trophy cabinet.
  • (2) It was extremely important to me that this transfer was completed before the World Cup so that my mind will only be focused on hopefully helping my country try to retain the trophy.” With Barcelona, who failed to win any silverware last season, hiring Luis Enrique as head coach last month, they have embarked on what is expected to be a transitional phase.
  • (3) But the reality is he's a specialist because, eight years without a piece of silverware, that's failure.
  • (4) United are keeping an open mind in case the Champions League semi-finalists fall short in their attempt to win more silverware.
  • (5) But the estates he inherited from his father in 1979 when he became the 6th Duke of Westminster certainly furnished the equivalent of many canteens of silverware.
  • (6) The impression remains that the Spain captain is leaving under a cloud after he was whistled by some fans at the Bernabeu last season, when the club failed to win major silverware.
  • (7) Gerrard is determined to end on a high a Liverpool career that has brought every major honour with the glaring exception of the Premier League title, with more silverware – Rodgers’ team face Chelsea in the Capital One Cup semi-finals later this month – and a top-four finish his priorities before he departs.
  • (8) Woodstock Vintage has beautiful things, from amazing linen to silverware, and I love the galleries, like What If The World , celebrating young, contemporary South African artists, and Southern Guild, which showcases the best of local design.
  • (9) This quarter-final was billed as the last chance of silverware for two clubs who have had disappointing seasons, and that was what it looked like.
  • (10) Mancini's track record is impressive, that trio of Serie A titles at San Siro supplemented by silverware including Italian Cup triumphs with Inter, Fiorentina and Lazio.
  • (11) Aside from any effort to undermine Tottenham psychologically, Arsenal may be starting to think there would be no harm in landing any piece of silverware.
  • (12) Barcelona and Atlético Madrid's chances of silverware have been dealt potentially devastating blows after they lost key players to injury in Tuesday's Champions League match, with the home side's centre-back Gerard Piqué damaging a hip and the visitors' top scorer Diego Costa limping off with what appeared to be a hamstring strain.
  • (13) From the outside the 37-year-old's arrival appeared a luxury aimed at raising the club's profile, potentially with an ambassadorial brief with Qatar 2022, rather than a free transfer signing who might influence a three-pronged pursuit of silverware.
  • (14) José Mourinho had entered the January window anticipating no major business, having declared his satisfaction with a squad who have lost only twice in all competitions this season and remain in the hunt for silverware on four fronts.
  • (15) Players, coaches, and front office staff alike have all publicly committed to the Open Cup run and the desire to bring silverware to the club is strong.
  • (16) Roman Abramovich had come to Monte Carlo hoping to watch his team hoist silverware again and set the tone for the months ahead.
  • (17) Terry, who received an elbow in the head from Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Saturday’s penalty shootout win over Paris Saint-Germain , is now focused solely on the present with Chelsea and is intent on helping deliver more silverware in the coming season.
  • (18) Someone, one day, may have to own up to making a considerable dent in the silverware itself, just beneath the engraving "Chelsea Football Club 2012", though this was not the time to be talking of depressions of any kind.
  • (19) Life did not improve that much at Real Sociedad, either, but his quality was established at Preston North End and Everton, even if silverware was always elusive.
  • (20) The demands at this club are the utmost because Madrid always wants to win silverware.

Trophies


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Trophy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
  • (2) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
  • (3) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
  • (4) Moyes is relishing the visit by Chelsea and said: "I came for this sort of level but I came to win trophies and if you are going to win them then you do need to beat teams like Chelsea and Manchester City because that's the way our league is.
  • (5) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
  • (6) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
  • (7) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
  • (8) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
  • (9) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
  • (10) The overthrow of the Greek government so that (German finance minister Wolfgang) Schaüble could claim Tsipras’s head as a trophy.
  • (11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (12) England will still return home having retained, for what it is worth, the Wisden Trophy.
  • (13) Chelsea have an unorthodox way of gathering trophies but it is a successful one – and they will cherish this as one of their great nights.
  • (14) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
  • (15) The modern era has seen numerous format changes for the trophy.
  • (16) The winner in the 94th minute, from Jonathan Woodgate, came through a mistake by the Chelsea goalkeeper, Petr Cech, but the result itself was no accident and Tottenham earned their first trophy in nine years.
  • (17) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
  • (18) They won the Supporters’ Shield in 2013, the club’s biggest trophy to date.
  • (19) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
  • (20) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."

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