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    Use "gilded" in a sentence

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    gilded


    1. There are bars on the windows and the same genre of drab reproductions in gilded frames that we saw in John’s room adorns the walls


    2. Gaudy green armchairs with gilded wooden armrests shaped into lions’ paws line the walls


    3. The dinnerware is gilded


    4. and who is gilded with guilt


    5. The woman was quite mature and had a long and gilded robe on


    6. They spoke with the voices of women of purpose, and even the girlish banter which sprinkled their conversations was gilded with the genuineness of heartfelt joy, lacking the trivial frivolity so mechanically tittered by other young women tiresomely and without depth


    7. received this surname: gilded, polishing with


    8. Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around:


    9. high, hollow, and gilded


    10. He imagined the spoiled, gilded residents in panic, screaming and running in desperation for their very lives - in undiluted terror

    11. But hearing it took her back to the Imperial City and lovely Anvil, in which gilded musicians would often share their artistry at the auditory pleasure of all


    12. Privilege that saw generations-old luxury, gilded ballrooms, and finest porcelain


    13. He did not see the gilded flag of the purple lion enter Saparen, or the Thanes, their armor gleaming in the rising sun, cut through the line of ern


    14. Allowing him to seduce her in this place gilded with gold and silver, on a bed with the finest satin sheets, surrounded by classical paintings


    15. are gilded with today


    16. The seats were high-backed rectangular gilded thrones with colourful cushioned material


    17. Celebrations poured out on to the streets of Nordhel from the houses and inns within the city where people held grand parties in fancy costumes and gilded and feathered masks


    18. The furnishings inside Jean’s tent were suited to a queen’s palace, everything was gilded, the chairs, the bedposts, the mirrored lamps, the carpets, everywhere she looked was golden


    19. Terese had salvaged the desk from piles of furniture and other gilded items that were gathered for a bonfire, one of the more disturbing practices emerging from revolution


    20. 8 As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they

    21. The tome Prince Dizil magically Retrieved and held to Mark was finely tooled and gilded, the covers were sixty centimeters long and forty-five wide, and it was seven centimeters thick


    22. She was whisked to the top floor of the hotel, just glimpsing something of the wonderful gilded foyer and gigantic arrangements of flowers everywhere


    23. The tome Prince Dizil magically Retrieved and held to Mark was finely tooled and gilded, the covers were two feet long and eighteen inches wide, and it was three inches thick


    24. All I could see were his knuckles on the gilded arms of his chair, like a throne


    25. photograph in a gilded frame, which was the exact moment when I figured out that I was


    26. striking resemblance to the "conspicuous consumption" of the Gilded Age of the late19th century


    27. one for a hedonist in the Gilded Age, are now the aspirations of most people in developed


    28. It was shaped like a black flower, gilded with gold


    29. Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces-a city of mansions-all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires


    30. A different statue came to life—a gilded wooden pharaoh with a

    31. The altar was rising to the bottom, dressed with white and purple tablecloth and a thin lace gilded in the shores


    32. A season of Sweeney and Apollo in Bradford saw my gilded bum in the paper captioned “Theatrical Grin and Bare It” or some such, so we played to good houses


    33. No! There was a time in which he was a child so tender and delicate as any other, whose loops, gilded by the sun, abundant, hung from his head as grapes from a French vineyard in harvest time; and with the smooth face of an angel, as the one emulated by Raphael Sanzio hands in his wonderful painting, “The Two Angels”


    34. With exaggerated care he passed me the shallow gilded bowl flanked by a pair of elegant lions


    35. Her coiffure imitated that of the queen's, on her feet were gilded sandals such as Taramis wore in her boudoir


    36. Jewels glittered in the torchlight on her gilded sandals, on her gold breast-plates and the slender chains that held them in place


    37. and gilded chairs are set about


    38. This Aram lifted and showed the Cimmerian into a well-appointed chamber, the windows of which, Conan instantly noted, were small and strongly set with twisted bars of iron, tastefully gilded


    39. Yet there they were—gold breast-plates set with concentric circles of small gems, gilded sandals, and a short silken skirt upheld by a jeweled girdle


    40. The body still lay as he had first seen it, silent, motionless, in breast-plates of jeweled gold, gilded sandals and silken skirt

    41. They hurried down the corridor with reckless speed and stopped before a gilded door which bore the royal dragon symbol of Aquilonia


    42. His reason was candid; his motives, loudly proclaimed, gilded his actions with something of the glamor of a crusade


    43. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments


    44. It was not always a gilded life she had led


    45. The carnival had reached its highest level of madness and Aureliano Segundo had satisfied at last his dream of dressing up like a tiger and was walking along the wild throng, hoarse from so much roaring, when on the swamp road a parade of several people appeared carrying in a gilded litter the most fascinating woman that imagination could conceive


    46. Watching the glow of the fire as it gilded the persistent woman who neither then nor in any instant of her life seemed to exist completely, he suddenly remembered that on one October eleventh in the middle of the war he had awakened with the brutal certainty that the woman with whom he had slept was dead


    47. Systematically, serenely, in the same parsimonious way in which he had papered the house with banknotes, he then set about smashing the Bohemian crystal ware against the walls, the hand-painted vases, the pictures of maidens in flow-er-laden boats, the mirrors in their gilded frames, every-thing that was breakable, from parlor to pantry, and he finished with the large earthen jar in the kitchen, which exploded in the middle of the courtyard with a hollow boom


    48. The woman of every day, the one with her head held high and with a stony gait, did not arrive, but an old woman of supernatural beauty with a yellowed ermine cape, a crown of gilded cardboard, and the languid look of a person who wept in secret


    49. They jumped in en masse, swimming like birds flying through a sky gilded with fragrant bubbles, while José Arcadio, floated on his back on the edge of the festivities, remembering Amaranta with his eyes open


    50. In wire pens that surrounded the dance floor and among large Amazonian camellias there were herons of different colors, crocodiles as fat as pigs, snakes with twelve rattles, and a turtle with a gilded shell who dove in a small artificial ocean












































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    Synonyms for "gilded"

    aureate gilded gilt gold golden deluxe grand lush luxurious opulent princely sumptuous glossy meretricious specious

    "gilded" definitions

    having the deep slightly brownish color of gold


    based on pretense; deceptively pleasing


    ostentatiously rich and superior in quality


    made from or covered with gold