garret

Example Sentences

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Tired of the trouble, David opened his front door, and stood up to the crowd, “You are welcome to search the house from garret to cellar, if you do so respectfully.”

From Literature

They are ready to remake the world from their cold-water garret.

From Los Angeles Times

“How about my garret? It’s a bit downtrodden to be sure, but well off the beaten path.”

From Literature

Anything and everything you wanted to know about Bloomsbury, its predecessors and its casualties — with obligatory forays into the Riviera and Parisian garrets.

From New York Times

In central Paris, a thousand vulnerable people living in top-floor, garret apartments died because the city’s famous heat-absorbing zinc roofs turned their uninsulated homes into ovens.

From Los Angeles Times