How to Use hijab in a Sentence

hijab

noun

• This isn't the same as a hijab, which covers the head and not the face.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 June 2020
• The regime just tries to reduce [the protest movement] to the hijab.
  — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Kids kicked me, called me fat, and tried to take off my hijab.
  — Imen Siar, SPIN, 9 Sep. 2022
• The car stopped, and a woman in a hijab climbed inside.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
  — CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Women and girls were dressed in hijabs, niqabs and abayas (robes).
  — Andy Ngo, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
• Masih understands that the hijab is the weakest pillar of the three.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
• In Beirut, women had a choice; some chose the hijab, but others didn’t.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2018
• Drought to change: Baarud, a five-month-old camel, tugs at Aadar Mohamed's hijab.
  — Karla Gachet, National Geographic, 22 June 2020
• Pinkney got into the truck, grabbed the woman’s neck with one hand and grabbed at her hijab with the other.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• Many women in Iran are fed up with having to wear a hijab.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2022
• But the prospect of playing for France again became elusive with the hijab ban.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 19 July 2024
• There were also the women’s hijabs and the men’s thobes that seemed to disappear on the far side of the city’s border.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• More than anyone else, Masih Alinejad has taught me that a hijab is more than a piece of cloth.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the clip, a woman wearing a hijab claimed to be a nurse at a hospital in Gaza.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Only her eyes are visible; the rest wrapped in a face mask, hijab, and burqa.
  — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
• Omar also is the first to wear a hijab in the House chamber, after floor rules were changed to allow the head scarf.
  — Amy Forliti, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2019
• My grandmother and all my aunts wear a full hijab chador.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Last year, for example, hijabs and kufi caps were added to The Sims 4.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
• The hijab has been obligatory for all women in Iran since the early 1980s.
  — Amin Khodadadi, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• Last week, the French Senate approved a measure to ban the hijab for women under the age of 18.
  — Hoda Katebi, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
• She and her friends are made to wear hijabs and worship a different God.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Durrni allegedly pulled on the woman's hijab, told her to take it off, and then punched her in the arm.
  — Rob Frehse and Amir Vera, CNN, 29 July 2021
• Women wearing hijabs and burqas spilled in, taking their seats on the left.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2019
• The video shows a woman in a hijab walking down a tunnel, followed by a young girl and two boys.
  — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• But because of my hijab the young boy saw me only as Muslim.
  — Dahaba Ali Hussen, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• Maryam Hasan moves among them in a bright tunic and hijab, cleaning up, stopping to play or give a hug.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Some of the girls are wearing the hijab; others sport the pigtails of Japanese idol bands.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• In the internet age, this will begin with women posting about being forced to wear hijabs and generally being mistreated.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
• In the years since, Iranian women on the streets increasingly have ignored the existing hijab law, walking in public with their hair uncovered despite the threat of arrest or harassment.
  — Amir Vahdat and Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025