garb

How To Use garb In A Sentence

• The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
• Based on the number of coffee cans I found in his garbage a few weeks ago, I'd say he drinks 8-9 pots of coffee every day, or about 30 shots of espresso.
• She rustles a couple of black garbage bags in her hands.
• I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
• Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
• It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump.
• Mr. Hernandez's monochromatic costumes were 1950s-style, with the plain garb of the villagers contrasting with the cosmopolitan clothes of Neruda and his wife, Matilde, and Di Cosimo's natty, attention-getting white suit. When Postman and Poet Meet
• Most outer garments made of fustian were included among the garb of these people.
• A dense garbage of cans and plastic bags float past. Times, Sunday Times
• A neighbour reported hearing a thud that sounded like a garbage bag being dropped.