OVERCOAT in a Sentence

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93 example sentences for OVERCOAT, such as:

1. Hang your overcoat in the closet.
2. Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.
3. A thick overcoat is a good defense against the cold.
4. He set his sodden overcoat near the radiator to dry.
5. You can go out on condition that you wear an overcoat.

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 Meanings and Examples of OVERCOAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
overcoat
 n.  a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter
 n.  an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish)
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  She picked her way precariously across the stepping stones of the muddy street and walked forward until a sentry, his blue overcoat buttoned high against the wind, stopped her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  The second sentry, a large man muffled in a blue overcoat from which villainous black whiskers burst, came through the mud toward them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  Her gesture seemed to show a definite intention of dismissal, but her companion had tossed a bill to the waiter, and was slipping his short arms into his expensive overcoat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  The jolly tombstone-yard, where a utilitarian sculptor in a red calfskin overcoat whistled as he hammered the shiniest of granite headstones.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  When a clerk in an overcoat too closely fitted at the waist stared at her, she moved nearer to Kennicott's arm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  He tucked her hand into the side-pocket of his overcoat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  But I wish we could build a fire, and you could sit on my overcoat beside it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  They ain't got but one overcoat among 'em over there, and they take turns wearing it.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
9  At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
10  Grandfather tucked his bushy white beard inside his overcoat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
11  I found a shawl and an overcoat on the hat-rack, lay down on the parlour sofa, and in spite of my hurts, went to sleep.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
12  After the winter begun she wore a man's long overcoat and boots, and a man's felt hat with a wide brim.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
13  A man cannot go about in midwinter in Chicago with no overcoat and not pay for it, and Jurgis had to walk or ride five or six miles back and forth to his work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
14  He spent a week meditating whether or not he should also buy an overcoat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
15  He had no overcoat, and no place to go, and two dollars and sixty-five cents in his pocket, with the certainty that he could not earn another cent for months.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence:
1  You can go out on condition that you wear an overcoat.
2  A thick overcoat is a good defense against the cold.
3  Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.
4  Hang your overcoat in the closet.
5  I'd like to change this overcoat for one in a larger size.
6  For this special meeting, don't put on your hairy overcoat.
7  He set his sodden overcoat near the radiator to dry.