How to Use coat hanger in a Sentence

coat hanger

noun
  • One guy had like a coat hanger and [makes wooing ghost sound].
    — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • That aside, who doesn’t want to hear about a man who shoved a coat hanger up his ass?
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Fasten is around the trunk with a few pieces of wire (an old coat hanger works great).
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Even her beloved mother beat her on occasion with a coat hanger.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • It’s generally built with a motor and simple wire coat hanger frame.
    — Dusty Parnell, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Her riskiest fashion choice, meanwhile, was wearing a coat hanger as a necklace.
    — Christian Allair, Vogue, 28 June 2021
  • First, place a wooden dowel or straightened coat hanger across the mouth of a 5-gallon bucket.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Still others have sent thousands of coat hangers to the senator’s office in Maine.
    — Catie Edmondson, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • And best of all, the mirror distracts guests from registering that there’s a coat hanger hiding ‘round back.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Drape it on a coat hanger to perfume outerwear or over a car’s rear view mirror for a tasteful air freshener.
    — Ella Quittner Caitie Kelly Alice Newell-Hanson Kurt Soller Angela Koh Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The percussionist At 2 years old, Jones could hold a rhythm with just a coat hanger and a spoon.
    — Matti Gellman, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In that room on a recent day, a 7-year-old girl ate spaghetti for lunch using the end of a plastic coat hanger as a utensil.
    — CNN, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The gate, locked only with a metal coat hanger, allowed easy access to the avocado tree.
    — Edwidge Danticat, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
  • For a different look, bend a wire coat hanger into a square shape that’s similar to a plate hanger and attach art with small clips.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Guests have heard children’s laughter and giggles and spotted objects moving like marbles rolling and coat hangers jostling.
    — Julie Jordan, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Many are breaking windows of garage doors or even drilling holes in them, then fishing with a car antenna or coat hanger to hook the emergency cord.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon’s tool called polypus forceps.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Swap out your bathing suits, sundresses, and shorts for jeans and sweaters with these clothing organizers, and make sure all your jackets have a place with this coat hanger.
    — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Try a chemical drain cleaner or pick up a drain snake, which can be extended into the drain and remove the blockage – sometimes a coat hanger will do the trick in a pinch.
    — Taylor Walcik, Dallas News, 12 June 2022
  • Sergeant Pickett believed Linda Slaten had been strangled with a coat hanger from her own closet.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Make a temporary hook from a metal coat hanger by using pliers to cut off the angled wire on one side and to shorten the other side to 10 inches or so.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Outside of Reynolds’ office earlier Friday, critics of the bill began leaving coat hangers by her staff’s desks.
    — Barbara Rodriguez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2018
  • Those methods included inserting a foreign body such as a twig or coat hanger into the uterus, or having the patient drink caustic concoctions.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Turner had a difficult relationship with his father, who had a weakness for alcohol and disciplined his son with a leather strap or a wire coat hanger.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
  • Doctors can attest to the desperate measures taken by women, from coat hangers to caustic chemicals poured into the vaginal canal.
    — Juan Carlos, Marie Claire, 25 Apr. 2016
  • The gold finish and delicate design add a feminine touch to the decor piece, perfect for using as a coat hanger or jewelry organizer.
    — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The song’s not a righteous placard of a fetus or a bloody coat hanger, but a desperate, unresolved awakening to how much of ourselves we’re required to kill and maim every day.
    — Howard Hampton, Spin, 21 Sep. 2023
  • British furniture designer Steve Brooks sought to fix the dilemma, with a simple device that looks like the top of a coat hanger that extends to a base designed to be gripped.
    — CBS News, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The hotel has accessible public spaces — the guest house has a mobile ramp — and select guest rooms have lowered coat hangers and light switches, roll-in showers, and bars throughout the bathroom.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The Essential Starter Kit comes with 10 coat hangers and trouser bars, five classic shirt hangers, five skirt hangers, and five pant hangers.
    — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2023

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