coat
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A coat owned by French actress, model and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is to be auctioned to raise money for a dog rescue charity.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Dressed in a shabby old coat and chic beret—“a look halfway between woman of mystery and lobster fisher”—Nora aims to thwart a dangerous psychopath while protecting the policeman with whom she’s increasingly smitten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Hook’s coat turned from splotchy and brown to poofy and golden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
And Anna grabbed up the old black coat to cover him.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
On the livestream, Gastélum and his friends were wearing bright orange coats and bags typically used by delivery drivers.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The weathered thread compartment holds two toy horses with armed riders in red coats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
That left her free to nest in a pile of family coats under a row of seats.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
He coats the dry plaster wall with primer and then uses a mixture of oil and water paints.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Northern sled dogs became compact and heavily coated for cold conditions, while hunting dogs near the equator tended to be leaner and better suited to heat.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Shag carpet covered original terra-cotta floors, high-gloss paint coated nearly every wooden surface and overgrown weeds crowded the yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Pour the mixture over the oyster crackers and toss until evenly coated.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Molten car parts littered our path and out of the window we saw the whole hillside now coated in a dusty black.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The whole area was coated in black soot and it looked like a pack of feral ceratopses had barged through, but at least the walls were still standing.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
A new and improved anti-graffiti coating will be installed Friday, Hellmann added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The sugar used in the coating was mannose, which is closely related to glucose, the body's main energy source.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
President Donald Trump has blamed vandals for damage to newly applied coating on the bottom of the pool.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
It’s blended with an almost unreasonable amount of lemon zest and juice before coating every ridge of cavatappi.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
His voice had just a bit of an Indian accent coating his American one.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
