Example sentences for: bonnet

How can you use “bonnet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Before your tour you get into your uniform, including your bonnet (helmet--but never the flat cap used on motorized patrol), your stick (truncheon, including the new American-style nightsticks), and your uniform jacket (not strictly a jargon term, but another case of police-public divide, in that the public nearly always call it a tunic , which is never used by the police themselves).

  • The prefect, Bernard Bonnet, who was sent to Napoleon's island by the socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to impose law and order on unruly Corsican nationalists, is alleged to have ordered his police force to burn down a beach restaurant as an example to them.

  • Quaker bonnet a bluet; also lupine

  • The second bee in Lang's bonnet was the negligible position of culture in day-to-day life.

  • Soon thereafter, several other prominent scientists of the eighteenth century, including Abraham Trembley, Charles Bonnet, Peter Simon Pallas, and Lazzaro Spallanzani, discovered remarkable regenerative abilities in a variety of organisms.


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