mackinaw
Example Sentences
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“Busia and I entered the forest. She and I went alone, nearly a century apart but also together. … We disappeared into the dense forests. She wore a cape. I wore a mackinaw jacket.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023
My grandfather, as a rank seaman, wore a wool mackinaw, a family heirloom now in the possession of my brother, who lives in Maryland, where he never has to deal with 13 below.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2014
Jack Mulhall as the kindly miner never leaves one in doubt as to the heart of gold that throbs beneath his mackinaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Most of them come from New Brunswick�hard-muscled, catfooted lumberjacks who like to wear the loudest mackinaw shirts that money can buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was sitting humped over, with his hands jammed deep in the pockets of his patched and worn mackinaw.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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