Example sentences for: headdress

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

  • Where Archers suggests the light-footed world of dreams, the grotesque mask situated among the Ideal Heads in the first room--its headdress borrowed, it seems, from the Statue of Liberty--evokes an earthbound world where the human and animal realms are not easily distinguished.

  • Each warrior is an individual, with his own headdress, moustache or beard, and unique expression.

  • The physical tableau is striking: Netanyahu and Clinton, both "tall and hale" (thanks, NYT ), beside the ailing Arafat in his inevitable headdress and frail, bald King Hussein of Jordan.

  • Through happier times the village has built a reputation for weaving and embroidery — still sold in the lower town — as well as for its lyre players, and this is one place where you are sure to see men in their traditional costume of high leather boots, britches, and headdress.

  • Even in the vast open spaces of the Rajasthan desert or the Deccan plateau of central India, people appear everywhere, a tribesman on camel-back or lone woman holding her headdress in her teeth to keep out the dust as she carries a huge pitcher of water or a bundle of firewood on her head.


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