turban

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Recent Examples of turban Looking back on the experience, Costner recalls his costume being too big for him and his turban falling off. Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025 Search and rescue teams were not able to relocate the missing man, who was wearing a white turban and a black shirt, shorts and vest. Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025 Authorities described the man as wearing a white turban with black clothes. Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025 Thind was last seen wearing a white turban and a black shirt, vest-style jacket and shorts, authorities said. Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for turban
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turban
Noun
  • Newspapers kept running a photograph of an internationally famous heiress toting a machine gun while wearing a saucy beret.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Kardashian paired her velvet set with sheer stockings, patent leather pumps, a beret, and cat-eye sunglasses.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Folks in the South will recognize ingredients like oxtails and butter beans, which are combined with Jamaican green seasoning, Scotch bonnet, and allspice in Fowles's recipe.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Look at him carrying his baby to the park, to the market, to the playground; tying a bonnet to her head; slathering her plump pink arms with organic sunblock.
    Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The other, a raggedy, bearded civilian from his country’s military reserve, is less enthused, and often strips off his service greens and his Ottoman-style fez to smoke cigarettes and lounge in the sun.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Pugsley is a pug wearing a fez.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That’s what lawmakers grappled with Monday when a local conservative provocateur came to testify on an immigration bill wearing brownface and a sombrero and speaking Spanish.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This deepfake video is the latest shared by the administration that has drawn criticism, after an artificial video of Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office (which never happened) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Another suspect was said to be about 14 years-old, 5-foot-5, about 190 pounds and wearing a black shirt, denim gray pants, white Air Force 1 Nikes and a black helmet with a blue backpack on a black e-bike, police said.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • During a shift change, Dean Tait watched from behind the glass, removing his helmet and taking a drink from his water bottle.
    Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Police said the thief was wearing a skullcap and a black hooded sweat shirt.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The collection includes fabrics and objects that had served daily domestic functions and rare ritual ones: shrine covers and skullcaps, costumes and carpets.
    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The stalling momentum has come as the major market indexes haven’t moved beyond a small price range either, despite rotation under the hood .
    Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Cars line up at all hours, hoods serving as makeshift tables while drivers unwrap sandwiches still warm from the press.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The man in the statue wears a kufi, a round, brimless cap common in the region.
    Kayla Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Other traditions were also represented: The opening processional included religious officials wearing a yarmulke (Judaism), a kufi (Islam) and a long black robe (Eastern Orthodox Christianity).
    Blake Nelson, Mercury News, 18 July 2025

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“Turban.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turban. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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