GARAGE in a Sentence

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For GARAGE, below is one of 44 sentences:
In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car.

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 Meanings and Examples of GARAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
garage
 n.  a building where a car is kept, usually next to house
 n.  a shop where cars and trucks are sold, serviced, and repaired
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  His voice faded off and Tom glanced impatiently around the garage.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  They've been living over that garage for eleven years.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump with panting vitality as we went by.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  "But there's a garage right here," objected Jordan.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  He had slept through the heat until after five, when he strolled over to the garage and found George Wilson sick in his office--really sick, pale as his own pale hair and shaking all over.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  When he came outside again a little after seven he was reminded of the conversation because he heard Mrs. Wilson's voice, loud and scolding, downstairs in the garage.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  He slowed down, but still without any intention of stopping until, as we came nearer, the hushed intent faces of the people at the garage door made him automatically put on the brakes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  He reached up on tiptoes and peered over a circle of heads into the garage which was lit only by a yellow light in a swinging wire basket overhead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  Presently Tom lifted his head with a jerk and after staring around the garage with glazed eyes addressed a mumbled incoherent remark to the policeman.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  I got to West Egg by a side road," he went on, "and left the car in my garage.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  Now I want to go back a little and tell what happened at the garage after we left there the night before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  Until long after midnight a changing crowd lapped up against the front of the garage while George Wilson rocked himself back and forth on the couch inside.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  For a while the door of the office was open and everyone who came into the garage glanced irresistibly through it.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The garage has got full of junk again.
2  The whole process makes buying a car privately as painless as buying from a garage.
3  We're going to roof in the yard to make a garage.
4  Your car is awaiting collection at our garage.
5  Our car broke down and we had to draw it to a garage.
6  The garage floor was swilled down by father.
7  Don't forget to put the car in the garage.
8  He pulled into the driveway in front of her garage.
9  A gas main had cracked under my neighbour's garage and gas had seeped into our homes.
10  Left in the garage where it was damp, the wooden frame had warped.
11  Mrs Shedden noticed a bird sitting on the garage roof.
12  Examples might include cleaning out the garage or picking up litter in the neighborhood.
13  Outside this door is the garage.
14  The poor cat has been enclosed in the garage all night.
15  They picked up Oliver and carried him shoulder high into the garage.