a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building
bought a charming Victorian house with a garret that she hoped to turn into a writing room
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Recent Examples of garretAbout 10 years ago, Louboutin bought more garrets next to his apartment.—
Dana Thomas,
Architectural Digest,
12 Mar. 2026 One of Blake’s disciples was a young Welsh writer who arrived in London in the 1880s and took a job trawling through a garret full of old occult books, writing descriptions for a publisher’s catalogue.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026 Gives himself entirely to the race, shoots like a phantom up through the opening and then stands panting in the garret, completely motionless, while his eyes become accustomed to the change of light.—Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025 As anyone who has spent time living in a Parisian garret will tell you, the romantic notion of it dies pretty quickly, especially during a sweltering summer or a teeth-chattering winter.—
Tobias Grey,
airmail.news,
13 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for garret
In the fourth grade, Laura had suggested that the Jackrabbits’s meet in the loft rather than in the buggy bushes behind her house, but Carrie had refused.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2026
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The woman was held against her will and the door handle of the attic was removed, preventing her from leaving the attic area, according to prosecutors.
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Alex Stambaugh,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2026
Prosecutors also described how Pierre allegedly prevented the woman from leaving the attic.