mackinaw
Example Sentences
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“Busia and I entered the forest. She and I went alone, nearly a century apart but also together. … We disappeared into the dense forests. She wore a cape. I wore a mackinaw jacket.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023
My grandfather, as a rank seaman, wore a wool mackinaw, a family heirloom now in the possession of my brother, who lives in Maryland, where he never has to deal with 13 below.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2014
Most of them come from New Brunswick�hard-muscled, catfooted lumberjacks who like to wear the loudest mackinaw shirts that money can buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jack Mulhall as the kindly miner never leaves one in doubt as to the heart of gold that throbs beneath his mackinaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stepping over to my father, I buried my face in his old mackinaw coat.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
