sports coat
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He has brought that sports coat around the world in the last year, but was too protective of it to have it dry cleaned or have a tailor change a stitch of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Sometimes, he explained, what he really wanted to throw was a sports coat that he didn’t wear that Saturday.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Bald and goateed, Buzz wore a shimmering, red-sequined sports coat that seemed, in places, to have been eaten by plastic-hungry moths.
From Slate • May 30, 2023
Vermillion, wearing a sports coat and gray slacks with his attorneys by his side, appeared for a brief hearing Friday morning in Alexandria before District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022
He had one blue sports coat, for funerals.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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