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• April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.From the entry button
• The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.From the entry tatty
• I stamped my feet and buried my hands in the heavy overcoat I wore.2016, Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II. From the entry footgoer
• The quay teemed chock-a-block with porters, officials, clumps of overcoated people under umbrellas.2012, Michèle Roberts, Ignorance, page 218. From the entry chock-a-block
• Annie-John, the winkle picker, in men’s boots and a man’s overcoat went by with an empty bucket.2011, Dermot Healy, chapter 46, in Long Time, No See,, London: Faber and Faber, page 424. From the entry winkle-picker
• Double-breasted caped ‘Inverness’ overcoats and short fly-fronted coats in dark wool cloth were popular.1992, Sue Atkinson, “A brief history of fashion”, in Making and Dressing Dolls House Dolls in ¹⁄₁₂ Scale, David & Charles, published 1999…. From the entry countrywear
• THIS velour overcoat is part of the New England collection of autumnwear at Country Casuals.1987 September 4, Hoddesdon and Broxbourne Mercur, number 207, page 32. From the entry autumnwear
• Thus, carrying an overcoat over one's shoulder is a melakhah, but wearing one is not.1981, Isidor Grunfeld, The Sabbath: A Guide to Its Understanding and Observance, page 59. From the entry melakhah
• Further down the table, the Strong Man, an overcoat covering his leopard-skin, talked garrulously.1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 26. From the entry strongman
• Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 14, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 165. From the entry tree
• Wearing their Jermyn Street winter-sports kit of last year under common privates' overcoats."1915, Berta Ruck, The Boy With Wings. From the entry ekkers
• Our water - proof overcoats were worn full of holes and we were drenched to the skin.1907, Eclectic Magazine, page 74. From the entry paludinous
• In early February the North China Marines arrived, bag and baggage, decked out with full uniforms, overcoats and fur-lined hats.2011, Stanford D. Carman, Wake And Reunion, page 125. From the entry bag and baggage
• She had no religious education, had never seen the inside of a church until Granny put on the wooden overcoat.1999, David Ireland, The chosen, page 176. From the entry wooden overcoat
• He remembers men wearing overcoats to harvest the fall crops.1976, Nancy B. Hess, “County Crops”, in The Heartland: “Rockingham County”, Harrisonburg, Va.: Park View Press, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry watermelonless
• The wind goes among them detaching sweat-smells from underclothes making muscles itch under overcoats tweaking legs with inklings of dancetime.1975, John Dos Passos, edited by Warren G. French, The Twenties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, page 132. From the entry dancetime
• Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC. From the entry beautiful
• Bein' measured for a new overcoat, sir.1943, Stella Gibbons, Ticky, London: Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry stab-rag
• He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 481. From the entry sausage
• He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks.1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post. From the entry meg
• I noticed Larry to-day had on two vests, two coats, and an overcoat with his oilskin outside of that.1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 230. From the entry oilskin
• He had laid aside his dripping umbrella and was unbuttoning overcoat and coat to reach an inner pocket.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry unbutton
• “Found that spiffed overcoat, have you?” Sanders said, chuckling.1905, Wilbur D. Nesbit, “The spiffed overcoat”, in American Illustrated Magazine, page 530. From the entry spiffed
• The attic was a place to store the production costumes, racks of discolored highnecked dresses and floorlength overcoats and mismatched suits and evening gowns.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 3, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 21. From the entry highnecked
• With this in mind, my father hid my brother and sister (who were still quite small), under his bulky overcoat with hand-made pockets.2012, Maureen M. Berry, Boots Full of Memories, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry stout-heartedly
• Schwartz glanced at the printed superscription on the envelope and grumbled as he put the envelope away in his overcoat pocket, to read at leisure.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1140. From the entry superscription
• There were two graying women whose veined hosed legs below gray overcoats straddled shopping bags as they nodded toward one another wordlessly.1981, Shelby Hearon, Painted Dresses, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry hosed
• He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine.1959 November 20, Roald Dahl, "The Landlady", archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023. From the entry trilby
• He dressed by preference in checked overcoats and curly brimmed bowler hats that were at once dashingly smart and four decades out of date.1935, George Orwell, chapter 4, in A Clergyman’s Daughter, New York: Avon, published 1970, page 144. From the entry dashingly
• Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.1919, Sherwood Anderson, “The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift”, in Winesburg, Ohio. From the entry kick
• He was dressed in a long green overcoat with mock astrakhan cuffs and collar and wore on his head an oval fur cap.1914, James Joyce, The Dead. From the entry astrakhan
• We pulled our heavy overcoats tightly around us, shivering, and put our heads down as the din of fighting stopped for a while to grab an eyeful of sleep.2021, Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS: 1943–45, page 272. From the entry eyeful
• She appeared to be wearing a laced white nightgown as the hour of the evening was growing late, with an overcoat over to hide her bedwear.2011, Calvin J. Boal, Last Run of the Whisperer, page 331. From the entry bedwear
• Instead we gathered, the five of us, around your wooden overcoat to cry and weep remembering how in childhood we made you promise not to die.2009, Joanne Cucinello, The Moon is Still Yellow. From the entry wooden overcoat
• These bare, unworked facts evoke a scene right out of Hemingway, the overcoated wiseguy with the heater, the boy and the cook cowering in the kitchen (Another bright boy.2007 November 18, Rich Cohen, “Wiseguys”, in New York Times. From the entry overcoated

Meaning of overcoat

1. noun A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
2. noun An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).
3. verb To apply an exterior coating to.

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Questions about overcoat in a sentence

How do you use overcoat in a sentence?

Overcoat is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Wait 24 hours before applying an overcoat.”

What is a short sentence with overcoat?

“Bein' measured for a new overcoat, sir.”

What does overcoat mean?

Overcoat means a heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.