GARB in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for GARB, such as:
1. Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.
2. Around the tents, over more than five acres, bloodstained men in various garbs stood, sat, or lay.
3. Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don the garb of the pupils of the house.
4. So he doffed his prison garb, and put on his old fertilizer clothing, and heard the door of the prison clang behind him.
5. By the fire stood a ruffianly child, strong in limb and dirty in garb, with a look of Catherine in his eyes and about his mouth.
2. Around the tents, over more than five acres, bloodstained men in various garbs stood, sat, or lay.
3. Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don the garb of the pupils of the house.
4. So he doffed his prison garb, and put on his old fertilizer clothing, and heard the door of the prison clang behind him.
5. By the fire stood a ruffianly child, strong in limb and dirty in garb, with a look of Catherine in his eyes and about his mouth.
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Meanings and Examples of GARB
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garb
n. clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
v. provide with clothes or put clothes on
Classic Sentence:
1 Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.
2 Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.
3 The child had a native grace which does not invariably co-exist with faultless beauty; its attire, however simple, always impressed the beholder as if it were the very garb that precisely became it best.
4 The serf wore the customary garb of serving-men at that period, and long before, in the old hereditary halls of England.
5 As the last touch to her mermaid's garb, Pearl took some eel-grass and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's.
6 As with these, so with the child; her garb was all of one idea with her nature.
7 The post-chaise stopped; the driver rang the door-bell, and a gentleman alighted attired in travelling garb; but it was not Mr. Rochester; it was a tall, fashionable-looking man, a stranger.
8 I was glad to accept her hospitality; and I submitted to be relieved of my travelling garb just as passively as I used to let her undress me when a child.
9 By the fire stood a ruffianly child, strong in limb and dirty in garb, with a look of Catherine in his eyes and about his mouth.
10 Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.
11 Teresa was clothed from head to foot in the garb of the Count of San-Felice's daughter.
12 So he doffed his prison garb, and put on his old fertilizer clothing, and heard the door of the prison clang behind him.
13 Wives, again, put on weeds for their husbands, as if, so far from grieving in the garb of sorrow, they had made up their minds to render it as becoming and attractive as possible.
14 Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don the garb of the pupils of the house.
15 Around the tents, over more than five acres, bloodstained men in various garbs stood, sat, or lay.
Example Sentence:
1 Hard-working even by the standards of big name chief executives, he claimed that his customary garb of a crumpled black sweater saved him wasting time choosing a suit.