Word Finder - garage

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A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

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(20th century) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.

synonyms

• auto shop
• car workshop
• vehicle workshop

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A petrol filling station.

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A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.

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A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.

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A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.

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A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

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To store in a garage.

example

We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

In the garage, she paused at the old car.

The ground rumbled suddenly and the garage walls shook.

The garage door behind him opened, and he whirled.

I picked it up in a garage sale, for two dollars—with a bike tire patch kit tossed in.

Once again he reached behind his seat, this time pulling out a child's red polka-dot umbrella, no doubt another garage sale bargain.

Without alerting him, she went to the garage and searched her car.

She stopped at the garage door.

Looks like this chore is going to cut into your garage sale and auction time.

The car ain't due back at the garage 'til tomorrow but we gotta figure some way of returning it or they're gonna get miffed.

Two men in black darted through the bodies and into the house while two more hung back at the garage entrance.

She was silently thanking the heavens for rescuing her, until one of the men in black entered the garage and began shooting the downed men a second time around.

The article also describes a second project where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype 'Internet in a suitcase.'

When she opened the garage door, his truck was parked inside.

She'd jumped the two stories to the ground and was running towards a large garage.

The car was backing out of the garage when she grabbed the door on the passenger side.

I had seen the frontman for sixties garage legends, The Seeds, outside the venue and shook his hand.

He poured another wine before moving to the garage.

They strode into the sticky heat towards the gym between the house and the garage.

She jumped when the door dinged finally as she reached the garage.

They circled each other, and Jule waited to hear the sound of a car staring in the garage.

A torn look crossed her features before she whirled and disappeared into the dark garage.

Jule prepared himself, pleased to hear the sound of a car starting in the garage.

Yully spun out as she shoved her foot to the floor again, wincing when she hit him and drove him into the side of the garage.

He flailed for a moment then went still, pinned between the car and the garage.

Yully forced herself to her feet and strode through the house to the garage.

He paused in the middle of the lawn that stretched between the house and the massive garage.

He frowned but followed her into the cool, pre-dawn morning toward the garage.

Pierre punched him in the shoulder, and they walked toward the garage.

As soon as Dean was clear, the other car pulled in, stopping in front of the garage.

She fell asleep in the truck and woke when Alex lifted her out of the vehicle in the garage.

She was rinsing the pan when a vehicle entered the garage.

She hadn't been home more than fifteen minutes when he drove into the garage.

He guided her up the steps that led to an apartment over a garage.

There was a large attached two car garage.

He stayed with the kidnapper's car until it pulled into an abandoned garage a few miles away.

The portal led to an ante room between the attached garage and main house.

Silence fell, and the scent of blood and fire wafted into the garage.

Darian accidentally blew up a car an hour later and blew the roof off the garage.

The descent to the garage seemed longer than the longest car ride she'd ever taken.

At long last, he heard the sound of a car leaving the garage, and he maneuvered the guardsman away from the garage to ensure the immortal didn't take off after her.

She twisted in her seat to look back at the figures fighting in the bright motion sensor detection lights of the garage.

She was his current waltzing widow—first choice to fill his dance card when he wasn't surfing the net, tracking down an auction or garage sale or devouring a mystery novel.

Fred O'Connor was off in Mrs. Armstrong's exhaust-belching Buick, a prior commitment to a garage sale, although his heart wasn't in it.

I picked it up in a garage sale, for two dollars—with a bike tire patch kit tossed in.

Martha let loose a babble of questions about everybody and everything—the Deans, Fred, Mrs. Lincoln, Maria, SB the owl, Alice the geranium, garage sales, and guests—and lastly the identity of her troublesome bones.

He began by selling some of his numerous mystery novels on a book finder's web site, then expanded to garage sale scouring for items of dubious value.

Two more Saturdays of garage sales passed by, far less bountiful than the summer versions of the same, but nevertheless stocked with enough alleged treasures to keep Fred O'Connor at his computer key board for hours on end.

He drove the distance to his house in record time and barely got the truck in the garage before strong winds began bending the trees back and forth.

As she heard the door to the garage close, a voice passed over her – a ghost from the past.

The Wireless was run off a wet battery we called an accumulator, we took it to a garage to be charged up.