How to Use garish in a Sentence

garish

adjective
  • For all of its garish fashion, there were moments the 1980s got it just right.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2014
  • Throughout fabrics and color palettes, contrast was key and somewhat garish, as green met brown, and pink met orange.
    Alice Tate, Marie Claire, 21 Feb. 2013
  • The dress that had seemed so spectacular two minutes earlier seemed garish, even circus-like.
    Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 27 June 2016
  • Campari, Armagnac, Pernod, marc—as well as liqueurs in garish colors, such as Chartreuse.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • The line applies uncannily well to Las Vegas, that garish palimpsest of shrines to vice and Mammon.
    Christine Cipriani, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Loud-mouthed Charlotte wears garish lashes and a bold lipstick, while Gabrielle’s face is kept simple and natural-looking.
    Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
  • The director John Doyle has slimmed down and toned up a show that seemed leaden and garish in its original Broadway incarnation.
    New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Often crude, usually garish, the paintings and illustrations—especially for low-budget films—were a ploy to get noticed in video stores packed with titles vying for your attention.
    K.m. McFarland, WIRED, 11 June 2015
  • The font is garish, and the text rendered too large for the hat.
    Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Some of it is as garish as the houses of Middle Rock, but much of it isn’t.
    Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024
  • The ridiculous sideways look and the garish—even gruesome—grin are the same.
    Eve L. Ewing, GQ, 15 May 2018
  • On Breaking Bad, Saul had been a world-wise jester, all quips and garish suits.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • There were no garish pieces of jewelry for the Akron Pros.
    SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Leave the garish St Lucia flag one piece alone, and head for the nearest exit.
    Richard Delaney, Billboard, 9 May 2017
  • The lights of the parking lot cast a perversely garish gloom on the crumbling brick side of the building next door.
    Karen Schoemer, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • 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
  • In the Twin Cities, hop on a garish green bicycle to explore the area through the Nice Ride bike rental program.
    Amy Nelson, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • The properties are the opposite of Trump's gold and garish decor.
    Nick Budnick, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The styling is subtle but attractive, nothing too showy or garish, though the gap between the bed and the cap was huge.
    Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • On the surface, that may not seem such a garish misjudgment.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • It’s gorgeous and garish and ghoulish and good old-fashioned fun.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 May 2018
  • What is not known is how Johnson’s wife, Margaret, felt about the garish display.
    Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
  • The colors were bright and garish, suggesting a box of neon highlighters run amok.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
  • The aesthetics of Brat are garish—its signature shade of green alone sears the retinas—and are meant to be noticed.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 16 Aug. 2024

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