How to Use coverall in a Sentence

coverall

noun

• Work crews in blue coveralls plant trees and fix downed wires.
  — Tamer El-Ghobashy, WSJ, 9 June 2017
• In the streets, families sell their boots and the red coveralls.
  — Bloomberg, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• Bingo cards are $2 a pack for five games and a $2 coverall.
  — Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
• In a tent set up on the grounds, Cruz spoke to hundreds of workers still dressed in coveralls.
  — James Osborne, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• Riders are given a pair of coveralls to wear that help counter the cold.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
• On August 29th, Vescovo put on his coveralls and walked out to the aft deck.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
• Some have seen a figure of a bearded man in blue coveralls that looks just like the man who died out of the corner of their eyes.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• The saw chaps, coveralls, helmet, the eye, ear, and hand protection, and first-aid kit go in a duffel that is placed next to the saw.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
• The business will provide hard hats, face shields, coveralls, gloves and goggles, as well as the cleanup.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 18 June 2019
• See the man in his Army uniform, see the man in his lab coat, see the man in his worker’s coveralls, his leather apron, his hazmat suit.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• On deck, two coverall-clad observers brace themselves against the biting wind and snow, alert for the white plume of a spout or the fleeting wave of a tail.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
• This coverall allowed testers to stay warm longer in frigid temps up in treestands (a small platform set high up in a tree).
  — Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2022
• He was dressed in orange coveralls and had his arms shackled at this waist with chains and padlocks.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 21 June 2018
• Yates said the man was wearing a maroon short-sleeve T-shirt, tan coveralls and tan or brown canvas leather high-top boots.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 Mar. 2020
• Gomez said his crews wear long sleeves, coveralls, gloves and masks while handling fentanyl.
  — Curt Anderson, The Seattle Times, 19 July 2017
• Up a flight of metal stairs, Forsman entered the locker room, put on his blue coveralls and laced up his steel-toed boots.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Joshua Linkous dragged her into a room, shut the door and shoved his hands down the thick brown coveralls that were meant to protect her from chemicals.
  — Richard A. Webster, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• His game-day uniform -- red coveralls stitched with his first name and the Razorback logo -- is 12 years old.
  — Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2019
• The last guy who used the board forgot to pound down the nailhead sticking out, which rips a hole in your new fire-resistant winter coveralls.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
• This time, Lopez let her oversized denim coveralls serve as the main piece of the look but added gold hoop earrings to elevate the result.
  — Luz García, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2023
• Four days after the attack, Glenn reported his coveralls had been stolen on the night in question.
  — CBS News, 9 Dec. 2017
• At the wake, after the crowd had mostly gone, the grave-tender, dressed in green coveralls, drove a tractor with the tomb’s lid suspended by two metal chains.
  — Sarah M. Broom, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• Wear vinyl cloves and loose-fitting clothing or coveralls when working around it.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The line includes coveralls, hoodies, and tees in black, military green, and bright orange, as well as a cargo pant and three new jean styles.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2018
• The 49-year-old actress dressed in navy blue coveralls and wielded a sledgehammer alongside the Scott brothers.
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 21 Apr. 2020
• A parade of Carhartt coveralls and neon safety vests formed in the aisles for communion, the white wafers glinting between calloused hands.
  — Matt A.v. Chaban, New York Times, 2 May 2016
• While leathers can now be cut by machine or laser as well as by hand, most of the construction is done by someone in a coverall brandishing a tool.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
• Nurses in masks and coveralls trying to make small talk with ailing patients.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Here are some of Weinberger’s first pictures of workers in Zurich and Italy in the late ’50s, grease-stained and sweaty, in coveralls or sometimes only in shorts, shirtless.
  — Rebecca Bengal, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2017
• Within five minutes of the first shots, law enforcement officers in white coveralls were running crime scene tape across the front of the building where the hostage was found.
  — John Ismay Kenny Holston, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024