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Example sentences for "coats"

Lexicographically close words:
coatee; coati; coating; coatings; coatless; coax; coaxed; coaxes; coaxial; coaxing
  1. Fur coats and other winter kit were handed in.

  2. Fortunately the fur coats which had caused us so much trouble on the last march were now carried for us by motor 'bus.

  3. The morning was spent amongst the hangars at the docks, drawing sheep-skin coats and other equipment.

  4. One of the favorite lodging places is in the coats of the arteries.

  5. The salts are found principally in the coats of the wheat, and in removing these coats and the germ, not only the salts, but considerable protein is lost.

  6. Just look at all these silly black coats and blank white shirt fronts.

  7. Faultless footmen relieve the men of their coats and hats, and then usher them into the fine reception room where they wait for the ladies who are being attended by equally faultless maidservants.

  8. Radde, however, of the Tiflis Museum, tells me there is only one kind; and though I have myself seen great variety in the sizes and coats of different individuals killed on the Black Sea coast, I can well believe he is right.

  9. This priming may consist either of a number of layers composed of a mixture of chalk or plaster, with paste or glue, or else of a series of coats of oil colour.

  10. These shafts to have coats of boiled tar both inside and out.

  11. Give the paper 3 coats of thin size, 1 coat of good white starch, and 1 coat of a solution of gamboge in water; the whole to be applied cold, with a sponge, and each coat to be allowed to dry before the other is applied.

  12. With a like intention, some persons have recourse to soda water, which acts by the free carbonic acid it contains, and also as a diluent and, from its coldness, as a tonic on the coats of the stomach.

  13. Two or three coats of the product are successively spread over the surface of thin paper.

  14. Before varnishing maps after colouring them, 2 or 3 coats of clean size should be applied with a soft brush--the first one to the back.

  15. The lid to have two coats of boiled tar both inside and out.

  16. In chronic inflammation of the coats of the eye, or of the eyelids, specks on the cornea, &c.

  17. Let us get our coats and hats and be off.

  18. There is an almost amusing coolness in that open display of a saucer for the receipt of tips on the counter at which the coats are applied for.

  19. The only protection against rain they had with them was two small umbrellas, and I could see that they were somewhat amused at our rain-coats and leggings.

  20. Early in the morning word was brought that red coats had been descried in the woods near White Marsh.

  21. On the same day Colonel Long's scouts brought in word that there were British red-coats approaching.

  22. On the 5th of July, to their astonishment and consternation, the garrison beheld a legion of red-coats on the summit of this hill, constructing works which must soon lay the fortress at their mercy.

  23. The porters took the baggage, even to the coats and umbrellas, and the head waiter led the way into the house.

  24. Besides these things there were some coats and umbrellas to be carried in the hand, and Mr. George and Rollo had each a knapsack, which they had bought in Switzerland.

  25. Probably alluding to the rough state of their coats at this season.

  26. I will take care that the red-coats are dispersed through the country; you land at night with the crew of your lugger, receive your own goods, and carry the younker Brown with you back to Flushing.

  27. Stephen hardly noticed her at first, but as men buttoned their coats or went below, and she remained, his attention was attracted to the slim figure leaning on the rail.

  28. Beautiful pillars, brought perhaps from ruined Carthage, were set deeply in the whitewashed walls, looking sad and lumpy now that centuries of chalk-coats had thickened their graceful contours.

  29. A better way, however, seems to be to omit the coloring and give the entire floor two coats of paint after the cracks are filled.

  30. Skirts, waists, and coats hold their shape far better when disposed of in this way, and can be packed closely together.

  31. Three coats of arms (being those of the Bishop, impaled with the abbey of Oseney and the see of Oxford) complete the richness of what is a very good example of seventeenth century painted glass, in the strict sense of the word.

  32. The doctors were then in their red robes, the officers and men in laced buff coats and polished breastplates.

  33. This is panelled, and moulded, and decorated with shields, upon which are painted and gilded various coats of arms.

  34. These were only brought to light by the removal of successive coats of whitewash with which they had been covered.

  35. And we gave David a grace from us and softened for him iron (saying), 'Make thou coats of mail and adjust the rings duly and deal rightly, for I look upon what ye do.

  36. Mary," dropping her voice to a whisper, "I want Charles not to wear those straight coats any more.

  37. So Lydia took our hats and summer coats and put them in the hall closet, and then followed Nita, who was calling to her, on into Nita's bedroom.

  38. He had stayed in the living room with Strawn, had taken not the slightest interest in the scramble for hats, coats and sticks.

  39. And the anecdotes we have of the ways in which, when shirts and coats are given, they turn them to some ludicrous display, show how completely the idea of ornament predominates over that of use.

  40. We passed on, and did not witness the close of the bargain, our ears being now assailed with such cries of "Who vants three vaist-coats for old coat?

  41. They put on their coats and turned down the lamp, but before they went out they took particular pains to put the box where they knew it would be safe.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.