mackinaw
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“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
From the way he shrugged and scowled, it seemed the President blamed his bulky green mackinaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
