Example sentences for: garbo

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

  • Garbo's characteristic hunched posture of the mid-1930s was wholly obsolete.

  • Whether Greta Garbo actually ever said, I want to be alone (she did), is of little consequence in the larger scheme of things; but the world consists of many parts, including many smaller--even infinitesimal--things, and we must not turn our noses up at the exact wording of Neil Armstrong's moon quotation: at least it was in English, and one need not try to explain that in Et tu, Brute , the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus and then go off into the paroxysmal grammar of Latin to explain what a vocative is.

  • Greta Garbo, Käthe Kollwitz, and other emancipated women are significantly portrayed, and at the lower right is a map of Europe in which the countries that have given women the right to vote appear in white.

  • He continues: "Salinger became the Greta Garbo of literature, and then periodically, when it may have seemed he was about to be forgotten, he resurfaced briefly, just to remind the public that he wanted to be left alone . The whole act could have been cute or whimsical; only, it felt as if it were being put on by a master showman, a genius spin doctor, a public-relations wizard hawking a story the public couldn't get enough of."

  • flickeringlit numbers above an art deco doorin the brain's elevator, a polishedmarble cage dropping you smoothlyto the luxurious lobby of SerenitasHotel--a '30s spa, a hangoutgraced by Garbo and Groucho,


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