stocking cap

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Recent Examples of stocking cap But later, investigators were able to use genetic evidence from a stocking cap found near Schlais’ body to arrest Miller more than 50 years later. Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025 First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap. Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024 Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps. Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024 Then there are some non-edible, but very practical items: his iPad, for example, as well as his trusty stocking cap. Vogue, 30 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for stocking cap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stocking cap
Noun
  • Upon arriving, Farwell was seen on a security camera wearing a face mask, baseball cap and hoodie.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Here, Ross’ 1984-era super-padded shoulders take his mess jacket to a cartoonish extreme, but, paired with some sort of baseball cap on backwards, he’s not headed to the Royal Marines’ Christmas ball anyway.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Gregg Donovan, who donned a black top hat and red blazer, carried a laminated sign welcoming Kimmel back.
    Sarah Whitten,Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Cole flew to San Diego on Saturday morning, with his signature yellow tuxedo and top hat, to take the mic for the second game at Petco.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • On the wall beside the door is a photo of Lambert in uniform, his Army garrison cap cocked at a rakish angle, a thin mustache on his upper lip.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
Noun
  • The Texas Eiffel Tower was erected in 1993, and according to the Lamar County Chamber of Commerce website, its red cowboy hat was added in 1999.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Sweeney slipped into a golden bikini top with metallic bottoms while posing near the red rock canyons, wearing a sheer cream-colored shirt and cowboy hat.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021

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