Example sentences for: garb

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

  • Suggesting, as it did, the remote look of both the unworldly priesthood and the potent monastic orders, black garb was often the anti-fashion choice of dandies and intellectuals, of Hamlet the anxious prince, Byron the smoldering poet, and Baudelaire the austere, afflicted critic.

  • 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.

  • Greenbaum's latest effort, on the other hand, wraps an immense corpus of colloquial and formal speech up in the respectable garb of grammatical explication, leaving the reader to have learned elsewhere which of the examples should serve as a model when he invites his boss to dinner.

  • 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.

  • Along the way, he dons hip-hop garb and employs rabidly populist raps to say the sort of things that ...


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