Sentence examples for as garish from inspiring English sources

Blushing made me as garish as blood on snow".

A graceless, sprawling city more than two hundred miles north of Chihuahua City, Juárez is as garish as the capital is straitlaced.

So it is no surprise that Straya is as garish as they come, filled with gold panthers, metallic palm trees and a star-shaped bar.

But one of them has been restored so that its green motifs and trim seem as garish as they must have been originally.

(Why? To save a couple of pounds?) The STi is also not as garish as the Evo, inside or out, though I could do without the Subaru's gold-tone wheels.

Nobody said much when the mailboxes were made as garish as beer ads, or when the series of Presidential profiles on our stamps gave way to an ill-engraved gallery of lifeless mugs.

Of course, some designers are currently trying out patterns that the cast of TOTP in 1976 would reject as too garish.

With untapped markets as obvious as a garish billboard, more mergers may be just around the corner.

He proved that an elegant jacket could be as effective a marketing tool as a garish one.

I may not be back for a while; the place is as shrill and garish as the rest of fast-expanding Rosarito.

As cultural critic Marjorie Garber describes, he was now widely seen as a garish pop crooner: "in effect he had become Liberace.