Example sentences for: garish

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

  • 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.

  • From the second Liam Neeson and his subjects--Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, and Owen Wilson--set foot in the farcically garish Hill House, it's clear that Something Evil is watching them: You can tell because Something Evil respires so loudly that he's either Darth Vader or an asthmatic.

  • The garish painting, an exercise in bad judgment and sloppy execution, depicts evolution from an ammonite to a dinosaur to advanced (and presumably socialist) Homo sapiens.

  • I don't know what he originally had in mind--or whose idea the garish, inconclusive ending was--but American History X isn't that bad.


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