overcoat

Example Sentences

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He had slipped them into specially fitted, bottle-size pockets sewn into his overcoat.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

They were an odd pair: The middle-aged man, wearing a wool overcoat and what looked like an ill-fitting gray toupee, barely spoke.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

He became a fixture on television news, wearing either military style tactical gear or a long, double-breasted green overcoat with wide lapels that critics said was meant to echo Nazi German military garb.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

On the 1959 tour in New Zealand the great Ireland prop Syd Millar had his overcoat stolen from his hotel room.

From BBC • May 7, 2025

Even in the happiest times he’d made fun of my California accent, my secondhand overcoat and my room barren of tasteful bibelots, but in such an ingenuous way I couldn’t possibly do anything but laugh.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt