greatcoat
Example Sentences
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The king, wearing the uniform of the Marshal of the Royal Air Force, including a grey greatcoat against the cold, laid a wreath featuring 41 open-style fabric poppies.
From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2023
The two minutes' silence that falls after Big Ben sounds sees faces long with memory and grief, none more so than the King, a single poppy blazing out from the blue-grey lapel of his greatcoat.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2023
Along with everyone else, the Coens had admired Thewlis’s performance as Johnny, the acerbic prophet of doom in Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked, in which he stalked the streets of London in an undertaker’s greatcoat.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2017
A Chronicler in a dusty bowler and rumpled greatcoat writes it all down.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2016
Down the block, a German soldier in a greatcoat, scarf, and hat cupped his hands to his face to light a cigarette.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
