Example sentences for: garbo

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

  • Here he entertained the movie star Marion Davies, his mistress for 30 years, and famous guests such as Charlie Chaplin, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, and the photographer Herman Mankiewicz, who recorded life at San Simeon for posterity.

  • Probably no star could get away with it if he weren't such an image of cool, as beautiful and remote and self-contained as Garbo or Chet Baker.

  • 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,

  • 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."

  • The desired effect appeared in the movies on the heads of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich and their glamorous colleagues, such as Gene Tierney in Laura in her scene at the Algonquin with Clifton Webb.


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