bonnet

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Recent Examples of bonnet One of the downsides of wearing a silk bonnet or satin bonnet is that sometimes indentations or red lines can appear on the forehead where the elastic band or tie was during the night. Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 30 May 2025 At Sandals’ Jerk Shacks, chefs stay true to that tradition by marinating chicken, pork, and fish in a fiery mix of Scotch bonnet peppers, thyme, and allspice, then grilling it over pimento wood. Sandals Resorts, AFAR Media, 2 June 2025 If anything, the look is straight out of Strawberry Shortcake’s pink and red pillowy bonnet from the 1980s, when Muriel Fahrion first created the look for American Greetings. Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 29 May 2025 The wigs and extensions are packaged in bonnets made by Ghana Textiles, the country’s oldest textile company. Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bonnet
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Noun
  • Under the hood is a familiar 375-hp, 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 and eight-speed automatic.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 June 2025
  • But under the hood, what the model actually does is generate a probability distribution over all possibilities for the next token.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Tucker stepped out of the batter’s box to tip his helmet toward both a roaring crowd and the applauding Astros dugout.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Culver City Pride requires helmets for all participants.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Andy Warhol painted a watercolor of a cat in a turban.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
  • In the new production of Sunset, everyone is dressed in black and white, including Scherzinger, who wears a black slip dress instead of Norma’s trademark turban.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • My wife, Liz, served leg of lamb and insisted Curtis remove his ever-present beret before entering the apartment.
    Ken Frydman, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
  • There are others in the crowded race: Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, best known for wearing a beret while leading the Guardian Angels vigilante group; Cuomo, who could stay in the race on a third-party line; and former prosecutor Jim Walden, running as an independent.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Like the self-portrait, Ezekiel’s sculpture portrays Titian with his head cocked toward his right shoulder, a lapel tucked underneath his coat, chains hanging around his neck, and his long beard and skullcap.
    Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
  • Here, visitors can see blue skullcaps, Fendler’s meadow-rues, saniculas, Johnny jump-ups, bush lupines, monkey flowers, globe lilies, California poppies, bird’s eyes, and wallflowers.
    Deb Hopewell, AFAR Media, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • While Justin Bieber had sat in private boxes at Leafs games before, his ostentatious look — a large white toque, thick orange jacket and sunglasses — was hard to miss.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • She’s outfitted in chef’s whites with her name and a spray of delicate flowers embroidered on her toque.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now the first American Pope, is seen here receiving his biretta from Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sept. 30, 2023.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 9 May 2025
  • Instead of the usual thousands, only 10 guests per cardinal were allowed in St. Peter's Basilica as the pope gave the men their ring and traditional red hat, known as a biretta.
    NBC News, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2020
Noun
  • Many of the protesters had covered their faces and wore long sleeves; one wore a sombrero.
    Emily Witt, New Yorker, 11 June 2025
  • Martinis are in order, as well as garish floral print shirts and oversized sombreros.
    David Weiss, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Bonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bonnet. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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