Example sentences for: vest

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

  • With these weapons in hand, a terrorist can use low-tech means of conquering distance--say, crossing a border with an atom bomb in a trunk or a vial of anthrax in a vest pocket.

  • This lean, unadorned, high-collared garment in plain fire-engine-red wool contrasts wonderfully with a peach velvet and green satin coat-and-waistcoat men's ensemble from about 1765, its cuffs and vest covered with embroideries, its buttons glittering with paste diamonds.

  • (Hillary Clinton plays her cards close to the vest; she might have a temper, but she would never carry on in public in front of perfect strangers.)

  • 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.

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


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