How to Use headdress in a Sentence

headdress

noun

• The dancers wore ceremonial headdresses.
• No need to go back to high school to learn the secret to the hair-roller headdress.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2022
• The tip of the headdress is shaped like a cobra, a feature known as a uraeus.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The statue of Yang Asha stands 216 feet when measured from the hem of her gown to the top of her horned headdress.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• The headdress became more elaborate with the gold on top of the head.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2023
• As a cow or a woman, Hathor wears a headdress of two cow horns with a sun disc.
  — Lola Méndez, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• The goddess wears a headdress featuring a pair of cow horns and a sun disc.
  — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The mother figure wears a steel headdress and stands on a metal box.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• Per the statement, the artist arranged the board’s darts in a formation that alludes to a headdress.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
• The serving girl wears the embroidered dress and the turban-like headdress of a gypsy.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• When the franchise moved to San Francisco, in 1962, the team name remained but the logo changed to a blue headdress.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 9 July 2020
• The 18-year-old wore a Yup’ik headdress, received her first dance fans and was blessed by her grandmother.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
• An African feather headdress and a black-and-white photo of Paris make for an eclectic mix.
  — Anna Logan, Country Living, 21 June 2023
• The birthday girl wore a full-face mask with a giant feather headdress and a black velvet cape.
  — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2022
• Namor ’s right-hand man Attuma, played by Alex Livinalli, wears a fierce headdress that comes from the sea.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Nov. 2022
• Its headdress — sprouts of branches and birds — has a Tim Burton fever-dream eeriness.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2022
• But at least that one had a fey Robert Pattinson in a headdress cradling a couple of lion cubs.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• Despite 3,400 years of weathering, the sphinxes still bear the carved limestone face of the pharaoh, who is adorned with a royal headdress and beard.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
• The superstar performed the single standing on top of a car with a headdress of jewels.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2021
• The men almost always wear national dress: an ironed white thobe and a white headdress kept in place by a black cord called an agal.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• But what’s been removed from the royal headdress is just as important as what’s been added.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
• Dancers also wear a headdress with thick, fluffy feathers in red, white and green, the colors of Mexico’s flag.
  — Carmina Tiscareño, Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020
• The headdress and face paint were insulting, so the team strongly discouraged it.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
• Chansley was bare-chested and wearing a horned headdress and face paint while breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• The feathers of many people can come together to create the headdress of one leader.
  — Alden Wicker, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2022
• The tray headdress, which must be the same height as the girl, is made up of 30 loaves of bread, specially shaped and threaded on five or six canes which are tied to a wicker basket.
  — Lea Lane, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Two take the form of worn mobiles: in the first, the legs and torso act as the trunk of a tree and a headdress envelops the rest in a set of branches within which an aviary of porcelain birds have perched.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• The first warrior has a jagged outline, suggesting a headdress.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Payton is in a Native American headdress and a red Speedo.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
• All that glitters in this example are mostly the whites of Muholi’s eyes, plus their necklace and their headdress of safety pins.
  — Jerome Weeks, Dallas News, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024