Examples of raincoat in a Sentence
I grabbed my umbrella and raincoat before going out in the thunderstorm.
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The range of 70 vintage styles will include a leather aviator jacket, a yellow raincoat circa 1992, a denim jumpsuit and a stone Irish linen shirt.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
Kogonada fills the film with saturated colors, favoring the primary standbys of fire-engine red, raincoat yellow and mailbox blue.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
So many raincoats don’t, but this one passed with flying colors through the rapids, airing out almost instantly.
—Anna Fiorentino, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
The state’s newest theory is that Zeigler wore a raincoat while shooting his wife and mother-in-law (who was shot with two different guns) and struggling with his father-in-law — despite the customer having the father-in-law’s blood soaked into his pants.
—Gail Hollenbeck, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
Kogonada fills the film with saturated colors, favoring the primary standbys of fire-engine red, raincoat yellow and mailbox blue.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
So many raincoats don’t, but this one passed with flying colors through the rapids, airing out almost instantly.
—Anna Fiorentino, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
The state’s newest theory is that Zeigler wore a raincoat while shooting his wife and mother-in-law (who was shot with two different guns) and struggling with his father-in-law — despite the customer having the father-in-law’s blood soaked into his pants.
—Gail Hollenbeck, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Raincoat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raincoat. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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raincoat
noun
rain·coat
ˈrān-ˌkōt 
: a coat of waterproof or water-resistant material
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