Example sentences for: garish

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

  • The nonsense of allowing spouses (in garish uniforms, no less) within the bounds of the arena in sports is unprecedented."

  • But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.

  • Geared more today toward tourists than fishing, the area offers a dozen or more seafood restaurants, as well as garish knick-knack shops and sweatshirt emporiums.

  • Invited by his buddy Arnie (Adrien Brody), a Jewish boy with garish rapper affectations, to help collect a debt for a mobster from the proprietor of a sex club, Harry finds himself bombarded by images of topless women and unable to keep from whaling on a man they came only to threaten.

  • With its garish pagodas, artificial caves, and brightly painted statues of well-known Taoist and Buddhist legends, the garden is an obvious photo opportunity.


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