How to Use garish in a Sentence

garish

adjective
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  • On Breaking Bad, Saul had been a world-wise jester, all quips and garish suits.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • This is not the case with Cruis’n Blast, which embraces the loud, garish, and playful spirit of the arcade to its fullest.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Nobody was quite sure what to make of them, with their brash manners and garish shirts.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Macklemore showed up in a garish green hat, shirt and pants.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2021
  • In short forms, players wear garish uniforms and use a white ball.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The fairies in the forest wear garish green glittery outfits.
    — courant.com, 9 July 2021
  • The past is also pastiche in Mirza’s film, garish colors and all.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Not her color or her size—and the knits bore appliqués that were garish even by ’90s standards.
    — Faran Krentcil and Todd Plummer, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • On the surface, that may not seem such a garish misjudgment.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In Montana or Wyoming, those colors would look garish against the dusty landscape.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Look closer and the perfection of this car is just as shocking as the garish Aston.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 3 July 2022
  • Gary/garish points to context and contrast, the ungarishness of the name Gary.
    — Kristen Roupenian, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Across the spring collections, brands channeled that mood by evoking the bare bellies and garish hues of the early 2000s.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Our top pick is the Samsonite Luggage Strap which has a standout pattern that's not too garish.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
  • And so, instead of a forest of garish come-ons, Times Square’s billboards have become a forest of, well, trees.
    — Dystopias Aug. 8, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2022
  • As the outfits have gotten more garish through the years, the competition to dress draft picks has heated up.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • That is, of course, until the folks at Vanquish Yachts chose to turn their attention to the often garish machine.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The calipers get the same treatment, with an aluminum finish instead of garish red or yellow.
    — Car and Driver, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Week after week, teams suit up in garish one-color uniforms in the face of tradition.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The logos weren’t garish, and there was even a brown option with understated gray trim.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The Gateway district was old and stained: garish bars, flophouses, liquor stores.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Her mother mixed the dye in spray bottles once filled with cleaning supplies, which the girl, now the woman, used to inflict garish patterns on the yard.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • At times, white washes of garish daylight poured in from the wings, a reminder of realities kept at bay.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
  • One showed me his lure, a garish cicada plug shaped like a Jitterbug.
    — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 June 2021
  • The coach hauled his 400-pound frame into his battered old truck and drove toward a nightmare of garish police lights and yellow crime tape.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Even when live events came back, celebrities seemed reluctant to look too glamorous at the risk of sounding a garish note in the midst of a public health crisis.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In an image, Chetrit appears with a stocking stretched over her garish face, like some perverse mashup of a china doll and a bank robber.
    — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • So five years ago, Ms. Tomaszewska made a fake nose out of modeling clay, donned fake, gold teeth, and covered her face with garish makeup.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The entire warm, emotional end of the show’s spectrum has been lopped off, leaving only black, white and garish yellow.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Like the Seventh and the Eighth, Walker’s No. 5 traffics in kinetic rhythm, shocking turns of tone and color, sudden floods of garish light.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 May 2023

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