parka
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Factoring them into the sales price would have added another $200 to the cost of a parka priced at $400 to $600.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
The crowd are far more likely to spend their day in the sunshine on Saturday, but it will still be blustery and may feel slightly cool – the perfect weather to break out a parka.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Danvers corners the figure in the parka, but when the man removes his hood, it’s Heiss, who crumbles into a ball and begins to weep.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
Appearing in a parka and a skullcap, he said he had only escaped because he believed he would be killed if he had remained in custody.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Ryan stuffed the motorcycle into one pocket of his parka and picked Ralph up carefully so he wouldn’t smash his tiny ribs.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
Puffer jackets cut like dresses and huge parkas topped with XXL fake fur hats completed the look of the "hot as ice" team, as one jumper had it.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
In winter it’s not uncommon to see Somalis in traditional dress bundled up in big American-style parkas and stocking caps worn over hijabs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
A hundred workers in parkas and ruanas began to load the trucks, each one bound for a different section of the Colombian capital.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024
Dressed in parkas and knit caps, the three volunteers lug crates of power tools and spooled wire into the gleaming mountaintop edifice that some have called astronomy’s “Sistine Chapel” and immediately start tinkering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
A light, thin snow continued to fall as dusk set in, and Owen and George tightened up their parkas and mittens.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
