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Example sentences for "blue coat"

  • He had on the sky-blue coat he had got made for the Feast of the Etre Supreme'--O reader, can thy hard heart hold out against that?

  • Very cautiously I began creeping nearer the passive figure, while the hammer beat so loud that it seemed he must hear it where he stood: a shortish, broad-shouldered figure, clad in a blue coat.

  • She declared she would never hear a blue coat preach as long as she lived, and home she went.

  • So six or eight of them, led by an elderly amazon, filed out of church while the "blue coat" was on his knees in silent devotion in the pulpit.

  • Now he is announced by the man in the passage to another man in a blue coat, who is a disguised messenger from the office.

  • There was Captain Waters in a braided surtout; there was Mr. Cymon Tuggs in pumps and a gilt waistcoat; there was Mr. Joseph Tuggs in a blue coat and a shirt-frill.

  • A blue coat, with metal buttons, ample laps, and pockets outside, with a handsome buff kerseymere waistcoat, formed his costume on this occasion.

  • He was dressed in a blue coat, buff waistcoat, a sort of baggy grey or thunder-and-lightning trousers, over which he had buttoned a pair of long black gaiters.

  • O noble spirit, if no worse guests here dwell, My blue coat sits on my old shoulders well.

  • And he glanced timidly at the count's blue coat.

  • Two wealthy citizens that are lately dead, and left their estates, one to a Blue Coat boy, and the other to a Blue Coat girl, in Christ's Hospital.

  • Bust; wearing a blue coat and a black choker; grey hair, and a beardless face.

  • He has a blue coat and a yellow waistcoat.

  • He wears a small wig and a dark-blue coat, with the star of the Order of the Black Eagle.

  • The Duke of Clarence is on the left, dressed in a blue coat with a white vest; he has his right hand on a globe, his left on his hip.

  • But maybe with a blue coat on us we could do as well heah 'bouts.

  • The farther north they traveled there was also a growing number of places where a blue coat might be welcome, but a gray one still signified "enemy.

  • Yet the badge was at one time so general an accompaniment to a blue coat, that when any thing wanted its usual appendage, it was proverbially said to be like a blue coat without a badge.

  • The General Hospital, Blue Coat School, Dispensary, and Asylums, are worthy of all praise for their essential utility as charities.

  • There are two other churches, and various dissenting chapels and meetings, Free Grammar School, Blue Coat School, and many others, also Hospitals and other excellent institutions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blue coat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue clay; blue cloth; blue coats; blue colour; blue cotton; blue dress; blue eyes; blue field; blue fire; blue flag; blue flower; blue grass; blue ground; blue jays; blue line; blue paper; blue ruin; blue silk; blue water; health resort; keep away; military forces; past days; real earnest; reflect upon; terminal moraines