How to Use hijab in a Sentence

hijab

noun

• The regime just tries to reduce [the protest movement] to the hijab.
  — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Masih understands that the hijab is the weakest pillar of the three.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
• Many women in Iran are fed up with having to wear a hijab.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2022
• There were also the women’s hijabs and the men’s thobes that seemed to disappear on the far side of the city’s border.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• More than anyone else, Masih Alinejad has taught me that a hijab is more than a piece of cloth.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• Only her eyes are visible; the rest wrapped in a face mask, hijab, and burqa.
  — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
• My grandmother and all my aunts wear a full hijab chador.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The hijab has been obligatory for all women in Iran since the early 1980s.
  — Amin Khodadadi, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• Maryam Hasan moves among them in a bright tunic and hijab, cleaning up, stopping to play or give a hug.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Extreme punitive measures The hijab has long been a point of contention in Iran.
  — Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• Hasan, who chooses to wear a hijab, said Azam taught her and her friends that clothing does not limit them.
  — Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 11 Oct. 2022
• Her open challenge to the mandatory hijab rule in place in Iran for the last 40 years did not go unnoticed.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Laws require all women to at least wear a headscarf, or hijab, to cover their hair as a sign of piety.
  — Jon Gambrell and Mike Corder, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2023
• Allah gives respect to females in hijab and there is value in this.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Hamida, who arrived this year from Yemen, wore a rose-colored hijab.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• There are no symbols that identify you, like a skullcap or a hijab.
  — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Like Nicole, Nouran doesn't wear a hijab or cover her body modestly.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2023
• More women are choosing not to wear the mandatory hijab publicly in Iran.
  — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
• Mohammad, the owner, grudgingly did the bare minimum, putting a sign on the wall telling women to respect the hijab law.
  — Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• And women have been going out in public without their hijabs.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• For Christmas, the family went to Morocco, where Xavier learned why some people wear a fez or hijab.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
• But the important point is that there is a legal requirement ... and the hijab is today a legal matter.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2023
• Rekabi wore a hijab during her initial appearances at the one-week climbing event in Seoul.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
• Is that simply through not having your female characters wear the hijab?
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
• According to The Washington Post, the regime has forced Iranian women to wear a hijab for nearly four decades.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 27 Sep. 2022
• Those who are found guilty of ridiculing or insulting the hijab face a fine, in addition to a possible travel ban up to two years, the bill says.
  — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Still, by not wearing her hijab, Movahed was challenging the system’s dress codes.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, Time, 7 Dec. 2022
• Or that women in full hijab saunter down the beach past sunbathers sprawled out on the sand, and both parties actually smile at one another.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
• Some of these protests have gone viral, such as the case of a group of teen girls who posted a TikTok video of themselves dancing without hijab to a Selena Gomez song.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• This takes on a particular meaning now in light of the death of Masha Amini for wearing her hijab too loosely and the subsequent protests in Iran sparked by her killing.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024