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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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“I started on my grandpa’s back, just floating down the creek with a life jacket on,” he told me during a recent phone interview from the Red Rock prison.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

He received applause for his fourth costume of the evening - a jacket and kilt combo, featuring the Loch Ness Monster.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

When I received this jacket, it was filthy and under $200, but I just washed it carefully.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

My copy of that old book is now dog-eared, its dust jacket torn.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Jonah asked, almost dropping his jacket in surprise.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Gone are the days of not decontaminating equipment, leaving the ashes on helmets and jackets, in order to boast of past infernos.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Recently, I’ve been interested in the reinventions of utilitarian clothing, such as bomber jackets.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Prosecutors have accused the defendants of helping launch a "substandard small boat, uncertified, unfit for navigation on the open sea, overcrowded and lacking appropriate life jackets."

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

“This is brilliant,” said Joe Sever, 36, a medical sales representative who brought his son and twin daughters, who were wearing matching denim jackets with their names bedazzled on the backs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The sky was cracking blue, and the guys had their jackets slung over their shoulders as they laughed and threw fake punches at one another.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

Shooting a 160-grain jacketed bullet at almost 2,000 feet per second, it was a speed demon at the time.

From Washington Times Jun. 14, 2020

These bullets are often jacketed by a harder metal like copper or steel.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2018

The open kitchen was crowded, too, as a crew of jacketed cooks prepped and flipped patties.

From Washington Post Feb. 2, 2017

On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Ornamental brass jacketing was extensively used on mid-19th-century American locomotives to cover not only the cylinders but steam and sand boxes, check valves, and valve boxes.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by John H. White

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

It has the advantage over methods of lagging or jacketing that the manure can be thrown over any pipe, water-seal, washing apparatus, &c., even if the plant is constructed in several separate items.

From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds




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