It was very profitable for them because natives often sold goods for useless trinkets.

"A useless trinket."

Nor do I need a useless trinket like a poster or key-ring to enjoy the music further.

You gave me jewelry, gowns ordered by you to your specifications, furniture, useless trinkets!

This pistol meant nothing to the chief, but he must have been taken by its strange shape and was carrying it as savages will wear useless trinkets.

I have also received large numbers of pens, mouse pads and many useless trinkets, all with advertisements.

It was a useless trinket, she realized; nothing worthwhile had come of using it and nothing would.

All he can talk about is exchanging useless trinkets.

Yet forward he goes, clear eyes squinting in the sun, a smile on his lips, his bag of useless trinkets swinging wildly.

Those town men wore long wraparounds the way our men did, and wouldn't have strung themselves with useless trinkets any more than ours would have.