Example Sentences

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The approximately 70,000 spectators, many already in ponchos and rain coats, filed out and, in little more than 15 minutes, the concourses of "the Linc" resembled a huge train station on a holiday travel day.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

He led me into a cream-colored bungalow he called his pathogen laboratory, where two workers in lab coats prepared milk samples.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026

"A few years ago they'd just be looking for shoes, now they need coats, they need clothes as well."

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

I’m very pale, so I had to go in for a few different coats.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

She sewed silk-lined hunting coats, each with eleven pockets.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell