How to Use fez in a Sentence

fez

noun
  • The string of his fez spins atop his head like a ceiling fan.
    — National Geographic, 23 July 2019
  • At least that's what the horse wearing a fez just told me* in a dream.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • At least that’s what the horse wearing a fez just told me* in a dream.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Pugsley is a pug wearing a fez.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Dart turned up wearing a banya hat—like a pointy fez that keeps your brain from boiling.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Al convinces them to give up thievery and become buskers, sort of a fez-wearing boy band.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
  • Who knew a little man in a fez drinking from a never-emptying glass could be so zen.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2017
  • The Shriners wore the traditional fez hats and met in a parking lot to line up.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Bruno Frisoni found a tall fez in a collection forming a stylish tablescape and spent most of the evening whirling like a dervish in it.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2019
  • But everyone in Minnesota knows that there’s only one person who can rock a size-four-foot fez.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
  • The kids play in their everyday clothes - tunic with belt, long baggy pants, turban or fez, and athletic shoes.
    — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Bertie has been invited to many children’s tea parties and sleepovers and has endured wearing a dress, a fez and being a unicorn.
    — Urmee Khan, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
  • At the front entrance, we were welcomed by a host of men wearing fez caps and traditional Moroccan attire.
    — Rachel Deloache Williams, The Hive, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Then there is Toby, the fictional, fez-donning cartoon cat that Baseman calls his alter ego.
    — Iris Kwok may 12, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The statue features a Shriner, wearing the recognizable fez cap and carrying a small child in one arm with a crutch or two crutches by his side.
    — Steven Goode, courant.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Na verdade, da mistura entre a minha cabeça e a do meu irmão, que sempre fez a balança perfeita para as minhas loucuras.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2019
  • There are old photos of Aliza’s grandparents, taken in Turkey, her grandfather in a fez.
    — Michael Shapiro, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Although the triangular Cheesehead is the company’s most popular hat, at least a dozen styles are for sale, from baseball cap and fez to top hat.
    — Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • What remained were quirky relics, like a black-and-white photograph of my dad as a little boy, wearing a fez after his circumcision ceremony.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Louboutin, wearing a fez, brought Natasha Poonawalla in a face-framing Harris Reed creation.
    — Miles Socha, WWD, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Their first collaboration in 1984 featured fez hats dripping with colored fringe.
    — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Afghan children wear traditional clothing - tunic, belt, long baggy pants and turban or fez - along with contemporary athletic shoes.
    — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The mayor’s office held a flag-raising ceremony at city hall, where a municipal official, flanked by men in red fezzes, praised the contributions of immigrants to civic life.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • The conical pile of locks were inspired by the silhouette of fez and pillbox hats beloved by Jackie Onassis and fixed into place using a mixture of pins and copious hairspray.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Herbal cures have long been part of Zara's family life and are in keeping with their religion, said her father, who came to court each day wearing a red fez, as many Moorish Americans do.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
  • The kaffiyeh thus became a symbol of solidarity uniting working class Palestinians with the upper-class, who would typically also wear a fez.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • That history helps explain why Sabbatai’s successor, Jacob Frank, dressed in Turkish fashion throughout his life, wearing curved shoes and a tall fez.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That name had also long been given to a Lebanese chocolate and marshmallow treat, until the manufacturer changed it 10 years ago to Tarboosh, the Arabic word for fez.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 July 2020

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