How to Use garish in a Sentence

garish

adjective
  • The font is garish, and the text rendered too large for the hat.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The garish leaves are not subtle.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026
  • While there were some garish looks, Hopkins was stylish in gray.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2025
  • In short forms, players wear garish uniforms and use a white ball.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Nobody was quite sure what to make of them, with their brash manners and garish shirts.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, this is a garish metaphor for our real-life female heroes.
    — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Divine is a garish spectacle in all the best ways.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • The ridiculous sideways look and the garish—even gruesome—grin are the same.
    — Eve L. Ewing, GQ, 15 May 2018
  • The fairies in the forest wear garish green glittery outfits.
    — courant.com, 9 July 2021
  • Someone had once painted the walls a garish ’90s red.
    — Diana Hubbell, Saveur, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Her public identity was forged in the era of velour sweats and garish trucker hats.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The colors were bright and garish, suggesting a box of neon highlighters run amok.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
  • The past is also pastiche in Mirza’s film, garish colors and all.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Katy Perry was swaggering about in a garish new hat.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Some of it is as garish as the houses of Middle Rock, but much of it isn’t.
    — Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024
  • And yes, the bottles are kind of garish, but don’t judge a fragrance based on its packaging!
    — Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 24 June 2026
  • On Breaking Bad, Saul had been a world-wise jester, all quips and garish suits.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Jones is more outgoing, has a silly laugh and is a former first-round pick who wears garish suits on game day.
    — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For all of its garish fashion, there were moments the 1980s got it just right.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2014
  • Not her color or her size—and the knits bore appliqués that were garish even by ’90s standards.
    — Faran Krentcil and Todd Plummer, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Tom did grow up an orphan, under the care of his garish Aunt Dottie.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • With a two-tone black and copper design, the earbuds look stylish without being garish or over the top.
    — PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The lights of the parking lot cast a perversely garish gloom on the crumbling brick side of the building next door.
    — Karen Schoemer, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • Leave the garish St Lucia flag one piece alone, and head for the nearest exit.
    — Richard Delaney, Billboard, 9 May 2017
  • In the Kurosawa version, the characters see the house on the hill as garish.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The styling is subtle but attractive, nothing too showy or garish, though the gap between the bed and the cap was huge.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • In Montana or Wyoming, those colors would look garish against the dusty landscape.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • In Montana or Wyoming, those colors would look garish against the dusty landscape.
    — Marni Jameson | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The white shade offers extreme eye brightening, in a playful, non-garish way.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2025
  • What is not known is how Johnson’s wife, Margaret, felt about the garish display.
    — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018

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