How to Use redcoat in a Sentence

redcoat

noun
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  • Smith changes costumes from Sons of Liberty garb, a blue wool coat with gold buttons that stands in stark contrast to the British redcoats, to a statesman's dress.
    — Maggie Hendricks, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
  • There are a dozen redcoat soldiers on their way to arrest everyone.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Rank-and-file soldiers are said to have rested under it, gathering strength before going on to beat the redcoats.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
  • The weekend’s stars are the Virginia militia, British Dragoons and Redcoats—all armed and dressed accordingly.
    — Katie Jackson, Fox News, 15 June 2017
  • With memories of the redcoats still fresh in their minds, Americans who settled the region in the early 19th century preferred the name Mount Tacoma.
    — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Two additional regiments soon washed up in Boston, which added up to a redcoat for nearly every adult man.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The history of sniping goes back to the Revolutionary War, when colonial sharpshooters, raised to use hunting rifles to procure game, turned their sights on British Army redcoat troops.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The slopes of Golden Gate Park were blanketed with drumming corps, students dressed as redcoats played war among the eucalypti, and beauties with long white gloves waved from convertibles bedecked with paper flowers.
    — Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Stephens seems convinced that the Second Amendment is contingent; that is, that its meaning and relevance rely upon the continuing prevalence of redcoats.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Betaal is set during British colonial rule in a remote village where a two-century old evil spirit, a British Indian army officer and his batallion of zombie redcoats are unleashed.
    — Nyay Bhushan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2019

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