How to Use chador in a Sentence

chador

noun
  • The chador has no fasteners; it is held in place under the neck by hand.
    — Russell Goldman, New York Times, 3 May 2016
  • Babak performs at an underground dance club where women shed their chadors to groove in slinky dresses.
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The terrified little boy, however, clung to his mother, peering at me from behind the folds of her chador.
    — Peter Gwin, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • Fakhrizadeh’s widow appeared unnamed on state television in a black chador, saying his death would spark a thousand others to take up his work.
    — Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Controversies over the chador and hijab persist in Iran today.
    — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Controversies over the chador and hijab persist in Iran today .
    — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In Iran, the hijab — and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some — has long been a political symbol as well.
    — Nasser Karimi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
  • Slowly, by the late 1990s, brightly colored headscarves and form-fitting coats replaced the black chador.
    — ELLE, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Other garments include the niqab, where a face-covering allows the eyes to be seen; the chador, which leaves the face uncovered; and the hijab, or head scarf.
    — Charlotte Allen, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Relatives hum around the graves, many of them women clad in the black ankle-length chadors favored by Iranian conservatives.
    — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
  • To express their resistance, the Islamists encouraged women to don the chador, a black cloak covering their bodies.
    — ELLE, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Another gathering was attended by several thousand women in chadors.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2019
  • His decisions echo today, particularly his 1936 decree banning women from wearing long, flowing black robes known as chadors.
    — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But while crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic's flag, other protests in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The Associated Press spoke to a variety of people on Tehran’s streets recently, ranging from young and old, women wearing the all-encompassing black chador to those loosely covering their hair.
    — Mehdi Fattahi, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
  • While crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic's flag, other commemorations in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2022
  • But while crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic’s flag, other commemorations in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
    — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • One of the defining images of the revolution in 1979 was an Iranian woman in a traditional black Shiite chador holding a G-3 rifle.
    — Ramin Jahanbegloo, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Interviewing Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979, Fallaci wore a chador.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Women in full chadors smile and wave at their convoys, and American soldiers even visit the crowded bazaar in unarmored cars, disembarking on foot with only sidearms, according to locals — unusual for any place at risk of an Islamic State attack.
    — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • This follows this month’s death of 22-year-old Mahsa ‘Zhina’ Amini, arrested in Tehran for not properly wearing the headscarf, which unlike the body-length chador is compulsory for women outside of their home.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The Guards’ intelligence department is headed by Mohammad (the good guys are known only by their first names), a stoic polyglot who is aided by his capable and religiously conservative female assistant Amini, dressed in a chador.
    — Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019

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