Example sentences for: garb

How can you use “garb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hall, begun in the reign of Emperor Tiberius following the Roman takeover, has pleasing proportions and the interior is decorated with reliefs depicting Roman emperors dressed in Pharaoh’s garb and worshipping Knum.

  • She overheard equivocal efforts to "call it something," so that " 'I like the concept' usually meant ugly"; and that when "Miyake had baggy prison garb, the word on that was 'intellectual' "; or that "if it looks like an old pinup of Rita Hayworth in a nightie, it's a return to femininity."

  • Not exactly the garb you'd envision for world domination.

  • If, to use two of Schor's examples, you don't want to put aluminum siding on your house or garb yourself in polyester, the only possible reason is that you don't want people to think you're a Bubba.

  • Hasidic Jews wear black hats, often trimmed with fur, and long black or brocaded coats — garb dating from their origins in 18th-century eastern Europe.


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