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How To Use garish In A Sentence

• Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
• The patterning is loud and garish but totally aesthetic, and functions as much as designer camouflage as an integrating device.
• Slowly, with enthusiasm that would put coffin bearers to shame, he moved past the poster cases, making nothing of the garish imagery and loud print.
• Hymen blew his torch out, put it into the cupboard for use on a future day, and exchanged his garish saffron-coloured robe for decent temporary mourning. The Newcomes
• It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch. She Closed Her Eyes
• Estate agents continue to advise sellers to tone down anything that might be considered too garish. Times, Sunday Times
• If garish colours had been in my mindset, then it has my kind of whimsey. MX42 / Illustration Friday: Frozen
• The conventional view held that cultural impress on the New World was rudimentary, artless, too recent to have mellowed the garish profusion of nature.
• No longer relegated to the garish masses, the saturated pink shades known as fuchsia and magenta are suddenly haute. Gioia Diliberto: Big Shoes To Fill
• It was like garish noon rising to the dignity of sunset in a couple of seconds.