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55 example sentences for GARRET, such as:
1. The whole family was in the garret.
2. They are the poor men living in a garret.
3. We all have in our past a delightful garret.
4. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies of the garret.
5. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long strides.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GARRET
garret
 n.  floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, whom the future will recall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
2  Nothing is so charming as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
3  We all have in our past a delightful garret.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
4  The grave-digger's dwelling was, like all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
5  It was plain that the grave-digger had made a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
6  The dormer window of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
7  Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity of a spectre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
8  Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his poverty was noble, his garret was neat.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
9  One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that it was large.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
10  His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies of the garret.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
11  It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in all that horror.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
12  His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of her very first step in that garret.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
13  Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long strides.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
14  The whole family was in the garret.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLIS...
15  The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black paper.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
Example Sentence:
1  They are the poor men living in a garret.
2  I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading.