COAT in a Sentence

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For COAT, below is one of 284 sentences:
She had a Christmas present for Ashley, but it paled in insignificance beside the glory of Melanie's gray coat.

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 Meanings and Examples of COAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
coat
 n.  an outer piece of clothing with sleeves that is worn over other clothes
 n.  a thin layer covering something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ethan paused also, affecting to fumble for the peg on which he hung his coat and cap.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  He went out into the passage to hang up his coat and pull off his wet boots.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  He pulled on his wet coat again and went back to the barn to feed the greys.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
5  He bundled himself into his old coon-skin coat and lay down on the box-sofa to think.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  He was well turned out in mustard-colored trousers and black coat and his pleated shirt was topped by the widest and most fashionable of black cravats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Rhett Butler removed a fine linen handkerchief from his coat pocket and idly flicked dust from his sleeve.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  As if every movement was agony, Gerald removed his wallet from his coat and opened it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that she and not Melanie were bestowing it as a Christmas gift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  But Melanie, by rare luck, had come into possession of enough gray broadcloth to make a coat--a rather short coat but a coat just the same.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  She had a Christmas present for Ashley, but it paled in insignificance beside the glory of Melanie's gray coat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  His new coat did not fit very well, for the tailor had been hurried and some of the seams were awry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  His coat and trousers were actually of the same material and they fitted him, instead of hanging in folds or being almost too tight for movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  His dress was as debonaire as if he were going to a ball, well-tailored white linen coat and trousers, embroidered gray watered-silk waistcoat and a hint of ruffle on his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  The pockets of his coat sagged heavily with ammunition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
16  Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
17  I'd like to try on that blue wool coat.
18  He laid his coat over a chair.
19  He draped his coat over the back of the chair.
20  He took off his coat and draped it over a chair.
21  Her coat was patterned after a Chinese model.
22  Come and remove your wet coat.
23  A ragged coat may cover an honest man.
24  The tailor has cut my coat very well.
25  I brushed up against the door, and some of the wet paint came off onto my coat.
26  There's a peg near the door to hang your coat on.
27  This woodwork has had its final coat of paint.
28  It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman.
29  A fresh coat of paint can transform a room.
30  The room was sorely in need of a fresh coat of paint.