How to Use coat hanger in a Sentence

coat hanger

noun
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  • That aside, who doesn’t want to hear about a man who shoved a coat hanger up his ass?
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • One guy had like a coat hanger and [makes wooing ghost sound].
    — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Sharon Wood had packed it away in 1973 as a relic of a battle fought and won: the image of a black coat hanger, slashed out by a red line.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
  • There are rooms with empty desks and lonesome coat hangers.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In that room on a recent day, a 7-year-old girl ate spaghetti for lunch using the end of a plastic coat hanger as a utensil.
    — CNN, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Entry was gained by someone who used a coat hanger to get into a Honda CRV and used the garage door opener in the car to get into the locked garage and then the van.
    — chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • First, place a wooden dowel or straightened coat hanger across the mouth of a 5-gallon bucket.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Still others have sent thousands of coat hangers to the senator’s office in Maine.
    — Catie Edmondson, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Many are breaking windows of garage doors or even drilling holes in them, then fishing with a car antenna or coat hanger to hook the emergency cord.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The gate, locked only with a metal coat hanger, allowed easy access to the avocado tree.
    — Edwidge Danticat, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
  • British furniture designer Steve Brooks sought to fix the dilemma, with a simple device that looks like the top of a coat hanger that extends to a base designed to be gripped.
    — CBS News, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Drape it on a coat hanger to perfume outerwear or over a car’s rear view mirror for a tasteful air freshener.
    — Ella Quittner Caitie Kelly Alice Newell-Hanson Kurt Soller Angela Koh Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Try a chemical drain cleaner or pick up a drain snake, which can be extended into the drain and remove the blockage – sometimes a coat hanger will do the trick in a pinch.
    — Taylor Walcik, Dallas News, 12 June 2022
  • A century later, in 1997, six VMI freshmen were beaten with a belt — and once with a coat hanger — on their legs and buttocks by seniors about three times a week for one month.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Make a temporary hook from a metal coat hanger by using pliers to cut off the angled wire on one side and to shorten the other side to 10 inches or so.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Swap out your bathing suits, sundresses, and shorts for jeans and sweaters with these clothing organizers, and make sure all your jackets have a place with this coat hanger.
    — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2023
  • That idea of a model only being a beautiful coat hanger...
    — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Her riskiest fashion choice, meanwhile, was wearing a coat hanger as a necklace.
    — Christian Allair, Vogue, 28 June 2021
  • The Essential Starter Kit comes with 10 coat hangers and trouser bars, five classic shirt hangers, five skirt hangers, and five pant hangers.
    — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2023
  • Some of the art in the show engages with social issues, as in Andrew Gonzalez’s sheet of faux food stamps, imprinted with his own name, that hangs from the gallery ceiling on a coat hanger.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon’s tool called polypus forceps.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Scattered around were plastic beer cups, an empty corn-chip bag, a cigarette butt, a wire coat hanger, and a rusted metal tube that had broken off a deck chair.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Sergeant Pickett believed Linda Slaten had been strangled with a coat hanger from her own closet.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • At two national hotels in Pineville, about 15 miles south of Charlotte, the woman was verbally abused, choked in ice baths and branded with a hot coat hanger, police said.
    — Fox News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Outside of Reynolds’ office earlier Friday, critics of the bill began leaving coat hangers by her staff’s desks.
    — Barbara Rodriguez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2018
  • In Ethiopia, women who cannot obtain safe abortions still seek unsafe, back-alley abortions, putting their lives at risk; The use of herbs, coat hangers, spoons, knitting needles, and drugs is common.
    — Annie Hylton, Longreads, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Critics sent coat hangers to Collins’ office, and an envelope containing white powder was sent to her home in Maine, both signs of how ugly the situation had become.
    — Brian Slodysko, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The current de facto image of a wire coat hanger with a line through it — referencing illicit abortions performed with household objects — is not going to be enough in this new world.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
  • Those methods included inserting a foreign body such as a twig or coat hanger into the uterus, or having the patient drink caustic concoctions.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Another feature of Nightlock is first responders can use a metal device, which looks similar to a heavy-duty coat hanger, to unlock the device from outside of the room.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2019

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