Example sentences for: vest

How can you use “vest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a provision of the recently passed budget bill, Congress used its constitutional authority to strip power from the mayor and City Council, and to vest it in the financial control board that was set up in 1995.

  • The entrants in my little competition were the Campmor, the North Face, the Marmot E.C.O. vest ($89, fleece made by Dyersburg from recycled plastic soda bottles), and the Patagonia Synchilla Snap-T ($86, the it-fleece of the prep-school, Phish-fan set).

  • The Marmot vest performed best, keeping my torso toasty but, of course, leaving my arms quite cold.

  • In conversations, Eurocrats are frank about their maneuvering for more money and empire: to wrest "competence," or jurisdiction, away from national governments and vest it in Brussels is the open objective.

  • Here it's Bono (a bland Jay Underwood), dressed in a fur vest, plucking out "I Got You, Babe."


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