On the bus the day before, his pregnant sister sat on a girl's coat.

(She had been placed in juvenile detention for stealing another girl's coat.

Barry Kirk held the girl's coat.

A Greenburgh police official said that a drawstring from the girl's coat had apparently become tangled on a handrail as she left the bus.

Many Ideas, Few Guidelines "How could I force the factory to make a prettier little girl's coat?"

Ordinarily form a possessive by adding 's to a singular noun (the boy's boots; the girl's coat), even if the noun already ends in an s (The Times's article).

The girl was attempting to cover her mouth with her hands, he said, and when the older woman noticed the man staring, she wiped blood from the girl's mouth with a corner of the girl's coat.