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Women in green scrubs and hairnets were lined up to greet her as her stretcher rolled out of the elevator.—Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026 Women in green scrubs and hairnets were lined up to greet her as her stretcher rolled out of the elevator.—Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 26 May 2026 One guy has a hairnet, but that’s about it.—Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026 Nothing reminded me of that as much as when Kimi and Myka, after doing runway walks in their hairnets and drab white protective garments, shoveled the graves of whey out of a slurry and pitched them into a giant bin.—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hairnet