How to Use garish in a Sentence

garish

adjective

• For all of its garish fashion, there were moments the 1980s got it just right.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2014
• Throughout fabrics and color palettes, contrast was key and somewhat garish, as green met brown, and pink met orange.
  — Alice Tate, Marie Claire, 21 Feb. 2013
• The dress that had seemed so spectacular two minutes earlier seemed garish, even circus-like.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 27 June 2016
• Campari, Armagnac, Pernod, marc—as well as liqueurs in garish colors, such as Chartreuse.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• The line applies uncannily well to Las Vegas, that garish palimpsest of shrines to vice and Mammon.
  — Christine Cipriani, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
• Loud-mouthed Charlotte wears garish lashes and a bold lipstick, while Gabrielle’s face is kept simple and natural-looking.
  — Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
• The director John Doyle has slimmed down and toned up a show that seemed leaden and garish in its original Broadway incarnation.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• Often crude, usually garish, the paintings and illustrations—especially for low-budget films—were a ploy to get noticed in video stores packed with titles vying for your attention.
  — K.m. McFarland, WIRED, 11 June 2015
• The font is garish, and the text rendered too large for the hat.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The ridiculous sideways look and the garish—even gruesome—grin are the same.
  — Eve L. Ewing, GQ, 15 May 2018
• On Breaking Bad, Saul had been a world-wise jester, all quips and garish suits.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
• There were no garish pieces of jewelry for the Akron Pros.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• This is not the case with Cruis’n Blast, which embraces the loud, garish, and playful spirit of the arcade to its fullest.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2021
• Nobody was quite sure what to make of them, with their brash manners and garish shirts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
• Leave the garish St Lucia flag one piece alone, and head for the nearest exit.
  — Richard Delaney, Billboard, 9 May 2017
• 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
• Macklemore showed up in a garish green hat, shirt and pants.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2021
• In short forms, players wear garish uniforms and use a white ball.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
• In the Twin Cities, hop on a garish green bicycle to explore the area through the Nice Ride bike rental program.
  — Amy Nelson, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2017
• The fairies in the forest wear garish green glittery outfits.
  — courant.com, 9 July 2021
• The past is also pastiche in Mirza’s film, garish colors and all.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The properties are the opposite of Trump's gold and garish decor.
  — Nick Budnick, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2019
• 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
• On the surface, that may not seem such a garish misjudgment.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• It’s gorgeous and garish and ghoulish and good old-fashioned fun.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 May 2018
• What is not known is how Johnson’s wife, Margaret, felt about the garish display.
  — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• The colors were bright and garish, suggesting a box of neon highlighters run amok.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
• The aesthetics of Brat are garish—its signature shade of green alone sears the retinas—and are meant to be noticed.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024