JACKET in a Sentence

Learn JACKET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
147 example sentences for JACKET, such as:
1. Hang your jacket up by the tap.
2. I like the color of your jacket.
3. The gun made a bulge under his jacket.
4. I have to wear a jacket and tie to work.
5. The jacket is available in various colours.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of JACKET
jacket
 v.  provide with a thermally non-conducting cover
 n.  the outer skin of a potato
Classic Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
1  He sat slouched in the saddle, a thick, rough-looking man with an unkempt black beard straggling over his unbuttoned blue jacket.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  Stooping over the dead man with distaste, she unbuttoned the remaining buttons of his jacket and systematically began rifling his pockets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Reluctantly he slid out of his hiding place, a giant ragged figure, bare-footed, clad in denim breeches and a blue Union uniform jacket that was far too short and tight for his big frame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  He had a torn jacket, muffler of a blue like skimmed milk.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  The Duluth delegation had brought their famous Beaver amateur band, in Zouave costumes of green velvet jacket, blue trousers, and scarlet fez.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  It was not Erik Valborg who stood there; it was a small, gray-bearded, yellow-faced man in mucky boots, canvas jacket, and red mittens.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  Looking straight out at her, wearing a beret and a velvet jacket, was Erik Valborg.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  They had seemed stiff and undetailed, but now there strode from them a personality, a personality unlike that of the languishing young man in the velvet jacket playing a dummy piano in a canvas room.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  After thinking some time on the bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in the middle of the room thinking.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
11  The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
12  Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
13  Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
14  But previous to turning in, I took my heavy bearskin jacket, and threw it over him, as it promised to be a very cold night; and he had nothing but his ordinary round jacket on.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
15  He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  It's a lovely jacket — and you couldn't argue with the price.
2  He draped his jacket over the back of the chair and sat down to eat.
3  A broad shouldered man wearing a dinner jacket swaggered confidently up to the bar.
4  The basic forms of jacket, vest, and breeches developed slowly.
5  The jacket is available in various colours.
6  I have to wear a jacket and tie to work.
7  I like the contrast of the white trousers with the black jacket.
8  This jacket's too big, even with a sweater underneath.
9  Better zip your jacket; it's cold outside.
10  I like the color of your jacket.
11  He cut a striking figure in his white dinner jacket.
12  He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
13  The gun made a bulge under his jacket.
14  You'll rumple your jacket if you don't hang it up properly.
15  Hang your jacket up by the tap.