Example sentences for: helmet

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

  • With SNUBA you wear a helmet, but you walk on the ocean floor.

  • A soldier's helmet stops a bullet with a clank; he removes it in wonder; his brains are then blown out.

  • The hockey ethos is to be elaborately casual and gruff about competitive achievement: Outstanding performance gets you a little slap on the helmet, a good-natured insult.

  • Catching pioneer and Hall of Famer Roger Bresnahan invented the shinguards and the helmet just after the turn of the century, when he got tired of getting whonked constantly--at one point some writers in New York City reported that Bresnahan had died after a particularly vicious fastball off his noggin.

  • A list of relative dimwits who were lousy chief executives might include Warren G. Harding (who described himself, accurately, as too dumb to be president) and Gerald R. Ford (who played one too many games without a helmet, in the memorable phrase of Lyndon B. Johnson).


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