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
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
The coroner's inquest heard that the gun went off, probably because the trigger was caught by part of Pte Davis' greatcoat.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2016
Then there was always a palaver with the greatcoat as she got going again, and near misses with puddles.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
