garret

Example Sentences

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In central Paris, a thousand vulnerable people living in top-floor, garret apartments died because the city’s famous heat-absorbing zinc roofs turned their uninsulated homes into ovens.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023

In May 1976, Rybakov’s close friend, dissident artist Yevgeny Rukhin, died in a fire in his garret studio in St. Petersburg, where he was meeting with friends.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn't do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2022

Since leaving prison in 2014, Mr. Beal has lived in a garret above a Midtown synagogue.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2021

“I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson