parka

Example Sentences

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Lengthened trench coats, shirts as dresses, sculptural raglan sleeves on bomber jackets, and oversized parkas made a statement.

From Seattle Times

Fifty of us, dressed in red parkas, bunny boots and ski goggles, stepped onto the Ross Ice Shelf at 77.51 degrees south latitude.

From Salon

Some Alaska Natives call them parka squirrels because their fur makes a nice, warm fringe for the hood of a coat.

From New York Times

“When my mother made me a parka, she used her thumb and her middle finger to measure how many times she would be able to cut the material,” Pollock says.

From Scientific American

You try to explain away the late-night police activity, the hair-raising screams from windows and the questions about why your child wears a parka in steaming July.

From Seattle Times