[
US
/ˈɡɛɹɪt/
]
[ UK /ɡˈæɹɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈæɹɪt/ ]
NOUN
- floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
How To Use garret In A Sentence
- If she was this careful and I was fool enough to admit that I dossed in the park she'd probably stick me in some garret over her stables, with that businessman of hers counting the teaspoons every time I went for a pee. The Vatican Rip
- A search for a suitable bone marrow or umbilical cord donor for Garrett is under way.
- Garret fought the urge to squirm as he felt her eyes rake over him.
- The man frowned again, and Garret fought the urge to scream and pull all his hair out in frustration.
- The pair escape to his rooftop garret and, free from the cares of the world, begin a passionate love affair.
- A celebrity, the Zu-Zu, the last coryphee whom Bertie had translated from a sphere of garret bread-and-cheese to a sphere of villa champagne and chicken (and who, of course, in proportion to the previous scarcity of her bread-and-cheese, grew immediately intolerant of any wine less than 90s the dozen), said the Cecil cared for nothing longer than a fortnight, unless it was his horse, Forest King. Under Two Flags
- Sarah Sallee, the strawberry-blond daughter of Mrs. Phelps, the sixth grade teacher at Garrett Elementary, was a lofty and unattained love of mine. The Impossible Division by Zero
- I fancy that he supposed me ignorant of the matter, or thought that if I had heard of it, I should never connect the respectable Dr. Black of Harlesden with a poor garreteer in the backwoods of London. The House of Souls
- I imagine my façade as an old Victorian, right on the waterfront and overlooking the twilight with many, many rooms and a little garret in which I sit overlooking everything.
- Garret Westerfield was taken with a seizure or fit.