How to Use garret in a Sentence

garret

noun
  • About 10 years ago, Louboutin bought more garrets next to his apartment.
    — Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
  • People often say that my apartment reminds them of an artist's garret in Paris.
    — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 8 Dec. 2014
  • In bed, under the sloping roof of our Paris garret, C said that we should get married.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Her own office, a cozy garret with a view of the Empire State Building, will have to do for now.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 2 Apr. 2019
  • In 1879, lightning struck as Wells looked out the window of the garret of the new courthouse.
    — al.com, 20 June 2019
  • The whole thing felt like my own private Parisian garret, with every nook and cranny carefully appointed.
    — Vogue, 8 July 2024
  • The boy quickly ascends the interior staircase, rushes into the corridor and clears the steps to the garret in three leaps.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • There is hardly any furniture in the young bohemians’ Paris garret, making the space resemble an empty stage.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The greatest and most talented Western inventors and scholars are those who for long years live a hard life sitting in a garret and discover something.
    — Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2013
  • The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn’t do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another.
    — Joyce Kinkead, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Gives himself entirely to the race, shoots like a phantom up through the opening and then stands panting in the garret, completely motionless, while his eyes become accustomed to the change of light.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • There is a romantic notion that a book is the product of a single author’s obsessive work, perhaps locked away somewhere — a garret or a basement — sweating the details down to the last comma.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Nadar had become friendly with Baudelaire and his fellow poet Gérard de Nerval during his days as a garret-hopping bohemian.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 7 July 2017
  • Instead, the second-wittiest joke of Coup de Chance is Alain seducing Fanny in his struggling-artist garret.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
  • But inside his little garret near the Louvre, Lequeu in 1789 was turning to a wilder and more whimsical sort of architecture.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Inside is an 1,100-square-foot home whose sloping eaves somehow give an apartment — in spitting distance of Murray Hill — the feel of a cozy attic garret.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The apartment was originally a series of garrets that Louboutin bought in 2010 and spent two years uniting and transforming into an eclectic one-bedroom pad.
    — Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Lowell’s writing oozes a sense of place, from the foggy, teeming streets of Shoreditch to Lucy’s small but cozy garret to Weston’s hollow, imposing London house.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • Although his subjects are often serious, Kleber-Diggs' warm, extroverted manner defies the poet stereotype of a shy wallflower sequestered in a garret.
    — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 7 June 2021
  • Lone wolves hurling thunderbolts from their garrets gave way to affable co-critics doing online chats, TimesTalks, and video clips, writing personal essays and exploring their own biases.
    — Boris Kachka, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Rodolfo's sidekick and garret-mate, the painter Marcello, was sung with grace and gravity by baritone Young-Kwang Yoo, whose beautiful, solemn voice could not fully hide a sparkle of wit and humor.
    — cleveland.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • With new windows and skylights, new insulation and upgraded electrical and HVAC systems, the once dark and uninspired garret became a sunny penthouse.
    — Maile Pingel, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • One of Blake’s disciples was a young Welsh writer who arrived in London in the 1880s and took a job trawling through a garret full of old occult books, writing descriptions for a publisher’s catalogue.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps most important in examining a creative life and career like this one is seeing how art is made in communities, rather than by isolated artists in garrets (or studios on 10th Street in Greenwich Village).
    — Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • For centuries thereafter, the uppermost floors remained least desirable (think servants’ quarters and Parisian garrets) until the invention of the commercial passenger elevator in the 1850s.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024

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