jacket
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Harrison said just before the boat was intercepted, Atak moved away from the engine into another part of the vessel and took off his jacket.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I started on my grandpa’s back, just floating down the creek with a life jacket on,” he told me during a recent phone interview from the Red Rock prison.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Sacks was on stage with Huang at a live taping, when Huang, clad in his usual black leather jacket, took the call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
When I received this jacket, it was filthy and under $200, but I just washed it carefully.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
I clutched it in both hands and looked at the worn, familiar dust jacket.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Recently, I’ve been interested in the reinventions of utilitarian clothing, such as bomber jackets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The few hundred in attendance spanned the full spectrum of AfD voters: young men in black bomber jackets and Lonsdale sweaters, elderly couples, barefooted hippies with braided beards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She works with the side of the factory that repairs old jackets sent in by customers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Building sites, for example, must provide workers with suitable clothing such as jackets with built-in fans, as well as air-conditioned break rooms and canopies to ensure shade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
They wore jackets and leggings of animal skins.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Shooting a 160-grain jacketed bullet at almost 2,000 feet per second, it was a speed demon at the time.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2020
The narrow two-story bar, jacketed in reclaimed fence boards and local art, became a hangout for the city’s artists, musicians and writers, as well as waiters, bartenders and baristas.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
The open kitchen was crowded, too, as a crew of jacketed cooks prepped and flipped patties.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023
Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bullets differed only in jacketing and the shape of the nose.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
It has the advantage over methods of lagging or jacketing that the manure can be thrown over any pipe, water-seal, washing apparatus, &c., even if the plant is constructed in several separate items.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
The object of jacketing is to prevent the loss of heat from the steam within the cylinder by radiation.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
