sports coat

Example Sentences

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Wearing a plaid sports coat and self-assured grin, Andrew Friedman ascended the Dodger Stadium podium in February 2021 like a conquering hero, the reigning monarch of a Dodger-blue empire that finally captured baseball’s throne.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2023

A seemingly generic men’s sports coat made from an ultrafine wool harvested from llamalike animals in Bolivia.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2023

He was all dressed up: beige slacks, white shirt with a woven navy-blue tie, tweed sports coat and tight-brimmed fedora with a couple of duck feathers stuck in the band.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Bald and goateed, Buzz wore a shimmering, red-sequined sports coat that seemed, in places, to have been eaten by plastic-hungry moths.

From Slate • May 30, 2023

Short and round and dressed in one of those awful outfits from way back when—bell-bottom pants and a sports coat with enormous lapels.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen