coattails

Example Sentences

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Harry entered the cavernous church in a black custom Dior three-piece suit with coattails.

From Seattle Times

They said Mr. Biden and Democrats fail to recognize that it is “not enough to try to ride in on the negative coattails of revulsion toward the GOP.”

From Washington Times

It became a watershed year for Republicans in North Carolina as GOP candidates rode the coattails of President Richard Nixon’s landslide victory.

From Seattle Times

Known for riding a filmmaker friend’s coattails and haunted by tragedy from his college years, Levit sees the prestige project about race in America as a make-or-break opportunity.

From Washington Post

“Riding on the coattails of generosity,” as he put it.

From Los Angeles Times