sports coat

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

He was all dressed up: beige slacks, white shirt with a woven navy-blue tie, tweed sports coat and tight-brimmed fedora with a couple of duck feathers stuck in the band.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 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

Beathard, a California surfer boy comfortable in shorts and T-shirts, arrived at Cooke’s Waldorf Astoria apartment in a sports coat and a loosely knotted tie he’d bought that morning.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

He had one blue sports coat, for funerals.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis