jacket
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She stopped in the middle of the woods during a walk, looked with disapproval at my light jacket, and threw her hands up in mock confusion, surveying the snow-encrusted pines.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
She’d looked so shocked as she picked herself up, her cadet jacket all muck covered and soaked, that I’d had to laugh.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
"Everything happened in seconds," she said, adding that those who made it off the ship had not even had time to put on life jackets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Nims and Kilu had covered their faces with their jackets - Mingma G believes they had seen the deadly avalanche coming and prepared.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Recently, I’ve been interested in the reinventions of utilitarian clothing, such as bomber jackets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“This is brilliant,” said Joe Sever, 36, a medical sales representative who brought his son and twin daughters, who were wearing matching denim jackets with their names bedazzled on the backs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
We all had our down jackets out today, finally admitting to ourselves that winter was a thing that was happening.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Crossing a room, the jacketed general manager paused to hold a wine glass up to a light, making sure it was clean.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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
It was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
If the sphere is charged and then the jacketing hemispheres fitted on it and removed, the sphere is found to be perfectly discharged.3 Numerous other demonstrations of this fact were given by Faraday.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Bullets differed only in jacketing and the shape of the nose.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
