garret

Example Sentences

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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

A triangle conjures up the narrow garret in which Harriet Jacobs, the author of “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” hid for seven years to avoid capture.

From New York Times