jacket
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A fan clad in a midnight-blue Yankees jacket had reached over the wall and interfered with the play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Black moptop over a face lined like a well-traveled map, and a jacket with the collar turned up against the perennial winter of cinematic 1970s New York City.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
She called him a “genius” and a “prince” who would put his jacket around her shoulders to protect her from the cold while they shot scenes on the waterfront in Hoboken, N.J.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Jensen Huang started Nvidia wearing garden-variety polo shirts but is now probably legally required to buy every single black leather jacket he comes across for the rest of his life.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
Then the man beside me coughed and put his hand into his jacket pocket.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
A Bulgarian vessel was close by, but when they arrived all they saw was an overturned boat and rafts as well as life jackets.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
It has been selling an assortment of other core ’90s wardrobe staples like baby tees, in addition to slip dresses and leather jackets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
On Sphere’s escalators, grey-bearded lifers hugged in shredded battle jackets; tween girls in “Master of Puppets” hoodies drummed along to every fill; accents came from eastern Europe, Latin America and all the world over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Zips were used to modulate the length of skirts, they ran across leather jackets and down a flared blue pair of trousers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
I’d found images of women wearing snug-fitting cheongsams styled with scarves, stoles, jackets, and flowing robes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
"Everyone who was sort of leather jacketed, leaning against the wall, too cool to dance, started dancing," recalls Pierson.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Newly jacketed Hall of Famer Joe Thomas was added to the Browns’ Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
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
At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
Surely not, he thought; though he could barely move, jacketed as he was to his seat by the wind.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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 was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
But I had grown too used to the jacket during my incorrigible days to let a single jacketing injure me.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
