Paraphernalia

//ˌpæɹəfəˈneɪli.ə//

"Paraphernalia" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Police found drug paraphernalia in Tom's flat and took him into custody.

Sami pulled out his drug paraphernalia.

Sami was purchasing bisexual paraphernalia.

Sami found drug paraphernalia in Layla's bag.

They parked in their space at the campground and began unloading all of their paraphernalia.

Tom was pulled over and charged with speeding and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Vacationing in the rural town of Ibaan, Batangas, Philippines, during Halloween season in the 1970s, we children looked at Halloween paraphernalia from abroad, but we did not really celebrate Halloween. At All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, we visited graves in the cemetery.

Ziri found drug paraphernalia in those woods.

I’m here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart stopping mind-bending paraphernalia you’ve ever laid your eyes upon!

Today was also the first day the scientists were able to get in the water. This is my first cruise to the monument and I was beyond excited to hear I would get a few hours to snorkel the maritime archeologist’s field sites. The archeology team and I were launched from one of the Hi’ialakai’s small boats and were soon hovering over a wreck that is thought to be an American whaling ship. It was particularly intriguing as a marine mammal scientist to be able to see large pots used to render oil from the whales, blubber hooks, and other whaling paraphernalia scattered along the reef. Marine mammals played such an important role in the human history of these islands, it is exciting to be able to return to these sites as a scientist and simultaneously learn about whales’ past and present influence on this area.

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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.

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.

So she told her what her husband had said and sat with her awhile; but, presently, up came porters, who brought all her clothes and paraphernalia and what not else belonged to her of goods and vessels from her husband’s house and deposited them in that of her mother.

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