How to Use frock coat in a Sentence

frock coat

noun
  • The abundance of frock coats, no question.
    — Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In one scene, Disney donned a top hat and frock coat and served as an extra.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The statue depicts a pensive Marx in a frock coat stepping forward with his left foot.
    — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The suit itself was a more casual alternative to the frock coat.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 18 June 2024
  • White, his long glossy hair falling to the shoulders of his white frock coat, pounded the stage like a man who’d downed a dozen espresso shots.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Most striking among them is the eldest son, dressed in a long velvet frock coat and a battered pair of brothel creepers.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Frocks and frock coats alike were designed askew and evidently elaborate.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 2 July 2018
  • Perhaps fans will see Harry's original frock coat again at a military event down the road.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 30 Aug. 2018
  • The father, in a black frock coat, cracked his whip at a mangy and irritated lion who eventually agreed to jump through a hoop.
    — Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • The statue of Colston appears pensive and wears an expensive-looking frock coat.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
  • Since the early nineteenth century, suits have evolved from tailcoats and pantaloons to frock coats and top hats to modern suit jackets and neckties.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • For her look, Ghesquière referenced men’s courtly attire of the ancien régime with a black frock coat with gold embroidery.
    — Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This collection channels that energy, but—thankfully—without a frock coat or breeches in sight.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Both Harry and William wore the frock coat uniforms of the Blues and Royals regiment.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
  • Her dresses and frock coats, often by British designer Fiona Clare, fit more expertly.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The frock coat, which is in very good condition, stayed in the Chipman family until a granddaughter sold it several decades ago.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Lavoisier wears a plain black frock coat and sits at a table with a quill pen in his hand, and with papers and glass instruments (a gasometer, a barometer) before him.
    — Cynthia Saltzman, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Standing nearby was Ross Hetrick, dressed as Thaddeus Stevens in a black frock coat, cravat and ill-fitting wig.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • Concealed beneath its frock coat, the latter part of the musical is very angry, and this is the fuse that catches light from the ensemble’s obvious sense of mission.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Harry and best man Prince William wore white gloves and the frock coat uniforms of the Blues and Royals military regiment.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • Rather, the turquoise frock coat takes the leopard’s spots and abstracts them into a fascinating pattern that remains at an aesthetic distance from the creature that inspired it.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Lincoln was wearing an embroidered Brooks Brothers frock coat when he was assassinated.
    — NBC News, 8 July 2020
  • Later in life, Elizabeth established herself as master of the frock coat, dress and matching hat in colors as bold as purple, orange, red and fuchsia.
    — Caryn Franklin, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
  • My most memorable purchase was a tan suede frock coat with decorative embroidery, trimmed with long Mongolian lamb fur along the cuffs, front opening and bottom hem.
    — Karen Toulon, Bloomberg.com, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Her painterly floral frock coat took cues from classic menswear including a contrast, satin shawl collar—a nice partner for her classic LBD.
    — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Prince Harry arrived all smiles and with beard intact wearing the frock coat uniform of the Blues and Royals, reflecting his Army service.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 19 May 2018
  • For the moderate liberal in his top hat and frock coat, here was a chance to overturn the monarchies that sat so heavily on top of every society and usher in a new regime of virtue and merit, of free trade and fair exchange.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For both ceremonies, the brothers wore their formal military uniforms, the Blue and Royals (part of the Household Cavalry) frock coat uniform.
    — Andrew Milligan, PEOPLE.com, 19 May 2018
  • That was the motivating concept behind Ghesquière’s new collection, which combined the frock coats of its royal palace phase with elevated versions of the athletic clothes and sneakers that tourists pad around it in today.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2017
  • So Camilla looks sleek, pulled together, her frock coats and fascinators dutifully in position, and her hair essentially unchanged for decades — her own version of the uniform that will telegraph a sense of security.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 5 May 2023

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