Parkas in a sentence

At AFP-Iowa’s office in Urbandale, a suburb west of Des Moines, a group of employees and volunteers sipped coffee and pulled on logoed parkas.

The company — which is known for its ultra-warm parkas but has been branching out into new categories — saw sales in the Asia-Pacific region jump 62 percent to 207.7 million Canadian dollars in the quarter.

At a JD distribution center on Beijing’s southeast side, employees in red parkas, masks and gloves sorted packages and sprayed them with disinfectant.

Shoppers are browsing the fruit and veg stalls on the left and on the right there are stalls selling clothes, with a good selection of parkas and other winter coats.

Alongside is the site of Joseph Brewster Shirt Manufacturing, which made wool shirts, parkas and snowsuits.

Loyola students will swap their pencils for parkas as record-breaking cold weather is slated to hit Chicago this week, officials said.

The crowd swells to about 50. Locals and organisers have brought extra outerwear for the uninitiated: parkas trimmed with wolverine fur, sealskin mittens, polar-bear-fur pants.

There is also an impressive outerwear selection of wool coats, sports coats, trench, military, and oversized parkas as well as knitwear.

Though the winter months bring on layers of long-sleeved sweaters and puffy-armed parkas, there is one queer sports team that is taking it all off.

Her Canada Goose parody stickers, which she calls the “status patch,” resemble the patches that adorn the arm of Canada Goose parkas and feature an outline of the U.S. map over a dark blue background.

Outreach workers in orange parkas accompanied the police on their efforts to get people into shelters.

Seven swimmers, ranging in age from 14 to 69, made nervous small talk as they bundled themselves in parkas, towels, even a spare tablecloth to ward off the chilly north wind.

Some were dressed appropriately for the cold and appeared to be self-sufficient, but as officers and outreach workers in orange parkas walked the length of the 10-car train, they passed a number of grim cases.

Still, more than a dozen people wearing bathing suits under ski parkas lined up at the Back Eddy before 11 a.m. when the doors opened for brunch.

Trousers and some dresses were often pleated, and lightweight parkas set off some outfits.

You’re kidding,” Schwiderson says, referring to the brand of parkas other Michigan students wear, which can cost up to $1,550.

All parkas were decorated with bird feathers, beard bristles of seal and sea-lion, beaks of sea parrots, bird claws, sea otter fur, dyed leather, and caribou hair sewn in the seams.

Both men and women wore parkas that extended below the knees.

Children wore parkas made of downy eagle skin with tanned bird skin caps.

It was then cut and sewn to make waterproof parkas, bags, and other receptacles (Turner, Ch. 5, pg. 70).