Examples of dunce cap in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Perhaps that’s why my second-grade teacher taped my chatty mouth shut and put a dunce cap on my head. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021 Sitting in the corner of the room, wearing a dunce cap, is Android, the world's only major consumer operating system that can't be centrally updated by its creator. — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020 Abraham Lincoln imprisoned editors during the Civil War, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt admonished a journalist to go to the corner and wear a dunce cap. — Will Weissert, Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020 Umpires who have calls overturned will now have to sit on a big stool in the right field corner and wear a dunce cap for an inning. — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2020 If my students are willing to share their secrets in their writing and to invite me into their homes over Zoom, an occasional dunce cap won’t kill me. — Anne Fadiman, Wired, 17 June 2020 Xi’s father was purged, and Xi was sent to the countryside, forced to dig trenches and wear a metal dunce cap. — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2019 Not all residents were on board with punishing the mayor with a sort of sartorial dunce cap, reported La Republica. — Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2019 The dunce caps and playground taunts briefly swiped the headlines from the other pressing NASCAR playoff hot topics, such as spoiler tape, encumbered finishes , driver twitter spats and lugnuts. — USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2017

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