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Usage examples of coathanger.

It showed a huge figure, with a large sword, a monstrous monocle and a moustache as wide as a coathanger, menacing a much smaller figure armed with nothing more than an instrument for lifting beets -in fact there was a beet stuck on the end of it.

Peter went off to find a suitable tool with which to recover the knife and soon returned with an old wire coathanger picked from the rubbish in a nearby skip.

Peter retrieved his coathanger and returned to his task, but no sooner had he done so than a police car appeared, not screeching and hurtling but prowling.

I felt myself gray and softly twanging for a moment, like a coathanger left to shimmer on the pole, with Happy there behind me, alone in her bed and her hot death.

Remo grabbed a coathanger and twisted it through the handles of the top and bottom parts of the ironing table, fastening it together.

It looked like someone had run a coathanger in through the wind-wing in an attempt to jimmy the lock.

Two workers nearby were winding sanded coathanger wire around wooden rods and cutting off links for more.

He could have cancelled, he could have told him anything, but he was not prepared to suffer a moment's mild embarrassment if there was no immediate need to do so, and the two of them scrabbled around among the coathangers for several minutes until Will mumbled something about the world being closed on Saturday afternoons.

He'd soon fall victim to can-openers, plastic bags, coathangers and electric sockets.