How to Use garret in a Sentence

garret

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024