Example sentences for: garish

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

  • Nightclubs range from garish girlie shows to conventional discos.

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

  • this garish and confused moment in history, with surgical precision" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Performances by Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, and Sigourney Weaver are said to be so solid that they compensate for the unlikability of their characters.

  • Once home, he might change into a garish velour leisure suit or an elegant yukata (light cotton kimono), the traditional informal attire for both men and women.

  • On the down side, the film's pretty much a one-trick pony: It "continually dares us to sneer at their garish tastes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Somehow the critics come out smiling anyhow.


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