How To Use Anorak In A Sentence
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In fact, he is something of an "anorak" on the subject.
The NUT's John Bangs – the best leader they never had – is stepping down
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His mother quilted a cotton - padded anorak for him.
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Do not be fooled by polycotton anoraks.
The Sun
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But no, they all came in an anorak or windcheater and a untidy motley lot they were.
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They appeared even less interested in ecology than I was, going through the motions in their wellingtons and anoraks, as if they were stood in a draughty lecture theatre rather than in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
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I'm a bit of a comedy anorak really.
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But for the history anoraks this was lightning striking twice.
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Wine anoraks know that these wines are made from Chardonnay grapes, but most drinkers associate Chablis with a taste, not its component parts, and they buy it because they like it, and the idea of it.
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My children think I'm a bit of an anorak, but I enjoy it.
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Why do they all wear fur lined anoraks with the hood up at all times?
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The two parter is already causing metal fatigue in anorak zippers across the Internet, and rumours abound.
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A bit of coffee's gone on the sleeve of my anorak.
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Suddenly I feel like one of those anoraks who criticise the Miss Marple films because they're set in 1951, and that model of bus wasn't introduced until 1953.
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He is wearing an anorak and carrying a rucksack and looks all set for a hike in the rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the short ceremony, these loutish tourists shambled off in their jeans and high nuisance-factor anoraks.
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Beards belong in trad jazz bands, real ale pubs and anywhere with anoraks.
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Aeroplanes resound to the deafening rasp of anorak pen-pockets when passengers are told to fill in their landing cards.
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In the kitchen he put on the combat jacket under his anorak.
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To an anorak they really are chalk and cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was designing jeans and Babygros for chain stores, anoraks for C&A, and so on.
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Music anoraks may remember Jesse Malin from his days as frontman of hardcore punk band D Generation but ‘The Fine Art Of Self Destruction’ is a far cry from back then.
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The few short frames of that tiny figure in an anorak being led by the hand to his death have become iconic.
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In Britain they are often called trainspotters or anoraks, and their encyclopedic knowledge, singular focus, and endless talking about their hobby often make them bores to be around.
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I completely agree with this in principle, having done my own tiny share of anorakish fact-checking and dissecting of slipperiness here over the last couple of years (such as this).
Freemania
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In winter he also wears a shapeless anorak and fur hat.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looked older and was wearing a dodgy anorak.
The Sun
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It must be something to do with our climate, whose low grey skies encourage a certain kind of anorak to spend hours burrowing in libraries.
CathNews
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Now you can match your designer wellies with its new anoraks.
Times, Sunday Times
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And peaking just over the tops of the tin roofs, you can see two double-decker buses, their windows steamed up and their occupants bundled up in huge padded anoraks.
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At least in America, you can go outside without a massive anorak and an umbrella; Ireland's weather sucks.
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His mother quilted a cotton - padded anorak for him.
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This winning combination, plus a willingness to play fast and loose with her image, has made her the darling of the fashion cognoscenti as well as film anoraks.
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It was at times tedious stuff, even for tribunal anoraks.
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It wasn't just the usual geeks, anoraks and trainspotters that you would expect.
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I saw him take off his anorak and sling it into the back seat.
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They appeared even less interested in ecology than I was, going through the motions in their wellingtons and anoraks, as if they were stood in a draughty lecture theatre rather than in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
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Or, to use the colloquial name, anoraks.
Times, Sunday Times
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But towards the end, the film caves in to its inner musical anorak, and we are lost in seemingly interminable squabbles about arcane musical details.
Times, Sunday Times
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Particularly important are a windproof jacket, or anorak, with hood or hat and a stout pair of walking boots or shoes as they may have to cross some rough ground to see the best wildlife.
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The blog's name Ardent Student is due the fact that I acknowledge that I am an utter learning geek - what the British call an "anorak".
Ardent student
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He was wearing a green anorak-style jacket and a stripy hat, and had carrier bags with him.
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The other day, this old man in a terrible nerdy anorak and flaky skin came to our school.
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Gavin stood in front of us in a brown anorak with the zip all the way up, no doubt with a neat shirt and tie underneath.
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Forget bijou hats, floating chiffon and strappy sandals - ear-muffs, padded anoraks and sensible shoes are the required dress here.
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As my sister distracted the guards, I pulled up the hood from my anorak and quickly disappeared into the large crowd.
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I was fine, wrapped in my weatherproof anorak with the hood up, and found the walk from one end of the precinct to the other a bracing and refreshing experience.
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In Britain they are often called trainspotters or anoraks, and their encyclopedic knowledge, singular focus, and endless talking about their hobby often make them bores to be around.
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He was wearing a black bobble hat and a dark-coloured anorak.
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Or, to use the colloquial name, anoraks.
Times, Sunday Times
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To an anorak they really are chalk and cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has just been raining, and all three wear anoraks tied around their waists, like ramblers.
Times, Sunday Times
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On top again, a down jacket or anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cult boardgame that was the entertainment of choice for anoraks and geeks in the days before the internet chat-room, Dungeons And Dragons has made it to the big screen.
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An elderly man in a beige anorak was powering across the scrubby grass towards her.
TICKLED PINK
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Here's one more for the political anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw him take off his anorak and sling it into the back seat.
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It was with buoyant optimism that Jamie Dolan and I donned the initialled manager's anoraks and led our young starlets to New Broomfield for the big kick-off.
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She'd dressed for a casual hike: sensible shoes, long silk underwear, jeans - which she was proud to still fit into - a turtleneck, a wool sweater, and an anorak.
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This new pan-global study of mammals in all their fuzzy variety begins as Attenborough shuffles into the frame of a blinding blue - and-white snowscape, swaddled in an Arctic anorak.
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Particularly important are a windproof jacket, or anorak, with hood or hat and a stout pair of walking boots or shoes as they may have to cross some rough ground to see the best wildlife.
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He slid the metal tube into the inside pocket of his anorak, then set off eastwards along the riverside path.
Times, Sunday Times
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Political anoraks who want to get ahead of the game should read Winning Back America, the former Vermont governor's recently published campaign autobiography.
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She had a shopping basket on the front of the bicycle and seemed to be wearing a blue anorak with a hood.
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We go around in anoraks and bicycle clips while they swish through in large cars.
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And peaking just over the tops of the tin roofs, you can see two double-decker buses, their windows steamed up and their occupants bundled up in huge padded anoraks.
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The official said that sham weddings were frequently performed by'very mismatched couples' who turned up in anoraks.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
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Before Olympic anoraks start writing letters, we know the 1906 Intercalated games don't count as an official Olympiad.
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You will see men and women in jeans, chinos, tailored trousers and jackets, anoraks, trainers, sportswear, coats and fleece - all garments developed from the uniform tradition.
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These days, the anorak is more likely to come from Asda than the Esso gift catalogue, but in all other respects the male obsession with collecting the serial numbers of rolling stock continues unabated.
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She has also used old jeans and anoraks to make curtains for changing rooms.
Times, Sunday Times
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SWEENEY: Patrick, the word anorak comes to mind and that comes from my childhood, but it was where people would have a fixation on a particular thing, it might be radio presenters or people in news or something like that, and they would constantly communicate with each other.
CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2004
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Forget bijou hats, floating chiffon and strappy sandals - ear-muffs, padded anoraks and sensible shoes are the required dress here.
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Anthea was wearing green wellies, a blackish anorak, and a horsey headscarf damp with rain.
SPLITTING
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Did you know (he declaimed triumphantly, shedding the opera-cloak to reveal an anorak) that during WWII there were a number of accidents (all crown-sheet failures) in American locomotives in use here which were caused by the inability of British footplatemen to read their modern and sophisticated Klinger reflex-type water-gauges?
Libertarian Blog Place
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He is described as 5ft 6ins, with brown balding hair, grey stubble and was wearing grey trousers, an orange long sleeve shirt, a mustard coloured felt blazer and a black anorak.
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Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks, sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds.
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A self-confessed ‘anorak’, he was indulging in his hobby of inking in all the B roads they have motored along over the years on a map he keeps specifically for that purpose.
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For the anoraks, there are also graphs on both companies' homepages which show how much electricity each part of the island is using per day.
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This just in: IN light of news that British teacher Gillian Gibbons has been spared the lash and sentenced to 15 days in a Sudanese choky for naming a teddy in an improper way, Anorak looks at the position of teddy bears in society.
The teddy bear teacher is sentenced to 15 days in prison.
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Ski fashion presents a unique challenge to even the smartest among us, but bear in mind that no one can really cut a dash in a bobble hat and two-tone anorak.
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Never mind the content of their remarks, even fellow Conservatives saw them as saddos in extra-thick anoraks.
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One then hopes it stops raining or warms up so as to take off the anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here's the perfect equation: showerproof anorak + school skirt + cut-out geeky sandals = #adorkable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tall, with long, Sixties-style hair and trendy dark shirts, he does not conform to the public stereotype of the anoraked maths professor.
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One was black and two were white. They were wearing parkas or anoraks with hoods.
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To an anorak they really are chalk and cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was fine, wrapped in my weatherproof anorak with the hood up, and found the walk from one end of the precinct to the other a bracing and refreshing experience.
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Take off scarves, too, while your child is playing and tuck in the dangling toggles on anoraks and jackets.
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He had a ring in left eyebrow, and wore jeans and a grey anorak with writing on the back.
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Train spotting may have acquired an "anorak" tag but it was once one of Britain's most popular hobbies.
Daily Express News Feeds
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He has a big anorak sort of thing, and he is carrying a large holdall.
Times, Sunday Times
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The researchers measured the binocular visual field of healthy volunteers while they were wearing four different styles of anorak.
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ENGLAND'S win was tailor-made for quiz anoraks as a striker was subbed after replacing a striker who replaced a striker!
The Sun
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The place was awash with yellow anoraks, smelly oxters and hairy legs.
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He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
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Authentic stripy t-shirts, deck shoes, sailor caps and even anoraks, are available from ship's chandlers around the country - particularly in coastal areas.
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It's not just anoraked berks and 40 year-old virgins who live with their mums that buy these things you know!
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He's a bit of an anorak, but he's got some nice ideas.
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If you thought geocaching was a bit anoraky I've now diverted slightly into trigpointing.
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Detectives are hunting an anorak-wearing flasher who exposed himself to a woman as she walked along a Burnley canal towpath.
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The IT sector's "anorak" image is a turnoff and women are needed to plug the skills gap - Comment: Top 10 cool IT people revealed
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To an anorak they really are chalk and cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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Docherty is, at this very moment, embodying the phenomenon by wearing combat trousers and a furry-hooded anorak and being, frankly, a bit whiffy.
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He's the comedian who spent years tickling our funny bones before donning a red anorak and surprisingly becoming a history expert in various documentary series.
The Sun
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And a number of men in dashing anoraks have arrived from the Department of Hard Sums at the University of Rutland.
Liveblogging The Rotten State of Britain quiz draw
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Some believe, for all its faults, that the former committee system did not just allow elected members to make real decisions it also equipped them with the kind of anorak specialist knowledge that could later be put to good use when taking up cases on behalf of constituents.
Inside out
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Jackie Peyton shlumps through her storylines in trainers and an anorak, unpowdered T-zone glinting ferociously under hospital striplights.
With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses
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She was trying to straighten an anorak around Sonja's pitifully slight frame.
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He wore a dark blue anorak with the hood up, blue jeans and light coloured trainers.
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He was wearing a navy blue and green anorak.
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This is the real problem: not a handful of big-mouthed animal-lovers in anoraks, but a defensiveness about research at the heart of government and the scientific establishment itself.
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The way he always seemed on low idle, engine just purring, slouching in the wind in his anorak, equanimous, friendly, shy, at the edge of the group with his coffee mug, expending energy with perfect efficiency, saving it.
Kook
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Under his grey anorak he wears a dark blue overall.
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At the risk of being labelled an anorak, I love trains.
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But for political anoraks like me, it couldn't be more thrilling.
The Sun
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Baseball cap, sweats, and what my mum would call an anorak.
MAN AND WIFE
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A fine drizzle had developed, so I wore my waterproof anorak and pulled the hood up to keep from getting too wet.
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The official said that sham weddings were frequently performed by'very mismatched couples' who turned up in anoraks.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was tall, he stooped, he wore a pale blue anorak and sturdy brown shoes.
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She wore an anorak despite the heat, hair uncombed and dusty.
WHITE LIES
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In a life still blighted by his sick, domineering mother he wears his disappointment like a shabby old anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was fine, wrapped in my weatherproof anorak with the hood up, and found the walk from one end of the precinct to the other a bracing and refreshing experience.
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I saw him take off his anorak and sling it into the back seat.
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My anorak has stood me in good stead this winter.
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He wiped the inside of the helmet with his anorak sleeve and put the helmet down beside him.
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And the other 5% of men are weirdos - the type who wear anoraks in night-clubs and socks in bed.
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Photos showed them wearing red anoraks on the ascent but orange ones on the summit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Particularly important are a windproof jacket, or anorak, with hood or hat and a stout pair of walking boots or shoes as they may have to cross some rough ground to see the best wildlife.
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One then hopes it stops raining or warms up so as to take off the anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is political biography that doesn't just appeal to political anoraks.
Times, Sunday Times
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But throughout the book the author drives the story along at a cracking pace, always accurate - but not a book for anoraks.
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Political anoraks are spoilt for choice this Christmas with three political guides on sale to take them through the hectic events of the past year.
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The same children who yesterday were in anoraks and mittens now play football in shorts, football jerseys tied around their waists.
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A lot of the people I've seen hunting have actually gone in anoraks, and who most townies would describe as thick country bumpkins.
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One then hopes it stops raining or warms up so as to take off the anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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He slid the metal tube into the inside pocket of his anorak, then set off eastwards along the riverside path.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today Southampton detectives appealed for the public's help in catching the burglar, who was white, aged 15 or 16 with fair hair and wore a grey anorak or fleece jacket.
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He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
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They were wearing dark green anoraks and holding big wooden clubs.
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Wear with an anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's because I'm a bit of an anorak when it comes to cars and most vehicles do leave an impression, whether good, bad or indifferent.
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She had a shopping basket on the front of the bicycle and seemed to be wearing a blue anorak with a hood.
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Especially the anoraks and the pea soup.
Times, Sunday Times
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His anorak has stood him in good stead this winter.
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In the past, the only choice we had was between silly woollen hats or the plastic things attached to anoraks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now I make this point not just to add a sort of anorakish-footnote to the debate, but so that the episcopate that we are discussing comes a little more clearly into focus for us, in connection to many of the issues that have already been touched upon.
Speech to General Synod on Women Bishops
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He speaks with a gruff voice, is balding and was last seen wearing a grey anorak and trousers.
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Now in an effort to dispel their relentless anorak image the group has taken to handing out flyers with jokes, m'lud, against lawyers.
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Perhaps the term was intended to describe not my clothing but my personality; something just short of "anorak".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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When Paul, a single man, went missing, he was wearing a blue striped shirt, green anorak and a green baseball cap.
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All but three were in collared shirts, fourteen were wearing glasses, six had beards and only one was wearing his anorak while competing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Converse dressed, pulled on his plastic anorak and went down to the street.
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Her son was dressed in an anorak and she had only a denim jacket to keep out the cold.
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We had an entire case each of flippy skirts for the city but, although I'd spent days trying on Gore-tex anoraks and khaki quick-dry zip-off hiking trousers, I couldn't bring myself to buy them, instead stocking up on girly fleeces.
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She's wearing an anorak and red and white stripy cotton shorts with bare legs.
Times, Sunday Times
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To an anorak they really are chalk and cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wiped the inside of the helmet with his anorak sleeve and put the helmet down beside him.
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It's well known that "anorak" is just a foreign name for a dirty mac, so the UK government probably thinks they've already got that one covered....
O (English) Rose, Thou Art Sick
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She shares her father's love of programmes that, face it, are never going to make any sense, even to those anoraks who later go through the episodes frame by frame.
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He is a political anorak.
Times, Sunday Times
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To an anorak they really are chalk and cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can't help feeling that once the anoraks get wind of this, trainspotting may become last year's ‘must do’ leisure-time activity.