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How to use jacket in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Jacket means a piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. Example: “He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.”

Examples of jacket by meaning

nounA letter jacket.

  • He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.

nounThe tough outer skin of a baked potato.

  • Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
  • Breakfast was composed of a meal which reminded me of a linseed poultice; for dinner there were potatoes boiled in their jackets with beef saltier than the ocean itself.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38

nounA police record.

  • And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail.1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:27:05 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 40 Acres and a...
  • Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a...
  • "I need to look up somebody's jacket."2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00

verbTo enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

  • By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.1918, Wilfred E[mil] Guttentag, “Examination and Testing”, in Petrol and Petroleum Spirits: A Description of Their Sources, Preparation...
  • By jacketting the rod and putting the whole resonant-bar device in a pressure vessel, the intrinsic attenuation can be measured under helium confining pressure.1989, Bernard Zinszner, “Is acoustic wave attenuation a useful parameter for well logging reservoir analysis?—Learning from laboratory...
  • Jaw has been exposed for preserving and jacketting.1999, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Charles S. Churcher, Mary M.A. McDonald, Henry P. Schwarcz, “Geography, Geology, Geochronology and...

More sentences with jacket

  • This is the sporty jacket for today's modern man on the go.From the entry today
  • He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.From the entry zipper
  • School uniforms for boys may include a school tie, jacket, cap and a pair of formal trousers.From the entry school uniform
  • He slipped off his jacket and hung it in the wardrobe.From the entry slip off
  • There was nowhere to conceal my wallet in the pocketless jacket.From the entry pocketless
  • I rubbed up the brass buttons on my jacket to make them shine.From the entry rub up
  • As soon as he entered the haunted house, he turtled down into his jacket.From the entry turtle down
  • That wine stain shows on your shirt. You should wear a jacket to cover it up, so it doesn't show.From the entry show
  • Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.From the entry put on
  • Hang on to my jacket until I get back.From the entry hang on
  • The jacket looks good and fits you well.From the entry well
  • We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.From the entry tailor
  • I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.From the entry extricate
  • Man, I love that jacket; it’s so old school.From the entry old school
  • He thought Nehru jackets went out in the late seventies.From the entry go out
  • He was restrained by the straight jacket.From the entry restrained
  • He was wearing a gray newsboy and a tan jacket.From the entry newsboy
  • I prefer to jacket up workers in private.From the entry jacket up
  • A jacket with distinct waist definition.From the entry definition
  • He was wearing a red jacket.From the entry red
  • I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.From the entry cool
  • I found my jacket. — Sound.From the entry sound
  • She wore a tattered jean jacket.From the entry jean
  • You look nifty in that jacket.From the entry nifty
  • That guy has long hair, rides a motorcycle, and wears t-shirts of his favorite heavy metal bands with a leather jacket to his college classes. He is a hesher.From the entry hesher
  • The safari-jacketed man took a step forward, his hand reaching into his jacket.2025, Chinedu Nnadi, The Ashes Of Empire. From the entry safari-jacketed
  • The uniform jacket is a kind of padded armor called "gambeson." Layers of quilted cloth.2024, Cube Kid [pseudonym; Erik Gunnar Taylor], Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Shadow over Aetheria, page 51. From the entry gambeson
  • The list included a boilersuit, gumboots, two different kinds of tie, two different kinds of jacket.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 49. From the entry boilersuit
  • On Tai Street, everyone's wearing masks instead of their traditional Chinese New Year changshan jackets.2022, Kelly Yang, New From Here, page 6. From the entry changshan
  • They have been replaced in the ONS basket with a “formal jacket or blazer”.2022 April 18, Rupert Neate, “The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?”, in The Guardian. From the entry ons
  • I had red cowboy boots with Swarovski crystals, and a bedazzled captain's jacket.2021, Triffin I. Morris, Gregory DL Morris, Rachel E. Pollock, A History of the Theatre Costume Business, page 162. From the entry bedazzled

Meaning of jacket

  1. noun A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  2. noun A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US).
  3. noun An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status.

Full definition of jacket

Questions about jacket in a sentence

How do you use jacket in a sentence?
Jacket is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.”
What is a short sentence with jacket?
“A jacket with distinct waist definition.”
What does jacket mean?
Jacket means a piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jacket (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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