How to Use garret in a Sentence

garret

noun
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  • In 1879, lightning struck as Wells looked out the window of the garret of the new courthouse.
    — al.com, 20 June 2019
  • Her own office, a cozy garret with a view of the Empire State Building, will have to do for now.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 2 Apr. 2019
  • Since leaving prison in 2014, Mr. Beal has lived in a garret above a Midtown synagogue.
    — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • People often say that my apartment reminds them of an artist's garret in Paris.
    — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 8 Dec. 2014
  • But inside his little garret near the Louvre, Lequeu in 1789 was turning to a wilder and more whimsical sort of architecture.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The poets are dragged out of their garrets to provide more floral polish: the tender bud of youth flowers, withers, ultimately falls away.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • There is hardly any furniture in the young bohemians’ Paris garret, making the space resemble an empty stage.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn’t do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another.
    — Joyce Kinkead, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2022
  • One can easily imagine exiting the snug garret, its annex fronted by fleurs-de-lis done in stained glass, and, far below, stepping into a bistro on Rue d’Argout.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The symbolism around lack of identity is obvious to the point of oppressiveness: clouds of smoke, hosts of theater costumes in Ella’s garret.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Lowell’s writing oozes a sense of place, from the foggy, teeming streets of Shoreditch to Lucy’s small but cozy garret to Weston’s hollow, imposing London house.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • Rodolfo's sidekick and garret-mate, the painter Marcello, was sung with grace and gravity by baritone Young-Kwang Yoo, whose beautiful, solemn voice could not fully hide a sparkle of wit and humor.
    — cleveland.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • There is a romantic notion that a book is the product of a single author’s obsessive work, perhaps locked away somewhere — a garret or a basement — sweating the details down to the last comma.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The home—essentially a garret—is replete with sloped ceilings and awkward proportions.
    — Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Nadar had become friendly with Baudelaire and his fellow poet Gérard de Nerval during his days as a garret-hopping bohemian.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 7 July 2017
  • With new windows and skylights, new insulation and upgraded electrical and HVAC systems, the once dark and uninspired garret became a sunny penthouse.
    — Maile Pingel, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • Perhaps most important in examining a creative life and career like this one is seeing how art is made in communities, rather than by isolated artists in garrets (or studios on 10th Street in Greenwich Village).
    — Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Lone wolves hurling thunderbolts from their garrets gave way to affable co-critics doing online chats, TimesTalks, and video clips, writing personal essays and exploring their own biases.
    — Boris Kachka, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Although his subjects are often serious, Kleber-Diggs' warm, extroverted manner defies the poet stereotype of a shy wallflower sequestered in a garret.
    — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 7 June 2021

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