How to Use hairnet in a Sentence

hairnet

noun
  • One guy has a hairnet, but that’s about it.
    — Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • Kate has even been known to wear a hairnet to keep her updo in place.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The princess has even used a hairnet in the past to keep her updo in place.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2018
  • True love is when your partner agrees to wear a hairnet to ride go-carts.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
  • Both wore a sort of thin metallic hairnet, with wires snaking down the back of their necks.
    — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Her husband was allowed in, wearing a mask and gloves and a hairnet.
    — The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Workers in the plant wear hairnets and gloves that need to be discarded every day.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The rooms are tended only by a small crew of workers in hairnets and white smocks, four workers per shift.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Then, aprons, hairnets and gloves are donned as groups are assigned to different food stations.
    — Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • On another bench, a woman in a hairnet and gloves was on her way to a hospital shift.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Women in green scrubs and hairnets were lined up to greet her as her stretcher rolled out of the elevator.
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 26 May 2026
  • Women in green scrubs and hairnets were lined up to greet her as her stretcher rolled out of the elevator.
    — Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • Some of us are even wearing hairnets as an extra level of protection.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Two women in hairnets transferred rice and meat from coolers into large aluminum pans.
    — Andrea Sachs, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Co-host Chrissy Tiegen even wore a hairnet and held a lunch tray for the performance.
    — Jamie Spain, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2018
  • In the prep area, men and women in hairnets and aprons carried plates away from clouds of steam rising above trays filled with sweet potatoes.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Chefs have hair, hairnets are fallible, and a strand can inevitably make its way onto a plate—we’re all human.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In 2015, a machine caught the hairnet of an Ohio worker and ripped off part of her scalp.
    — Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The women don’t earn much to begin with, and fear having to wear hairnets, issue receipts, and pay taxes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The women are all ages, in matching button-down shirts and not quite invisible hairnets.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Those goods include everything from hairnets to ice hockey gloves, and from pumpkins to billiard balls.
    — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Once everything was in tact, a beige hairnet was stretched over the bun with excess netting twisted and tightened for a nice grip.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 24 Oct. 2016
  • Hesse put on a red hairnet, a blue lab coat, and a pair of white plastic clogs—mandatory cavewear—and made her way down a spiral staircase.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Another employee put on a hairnet and then put on gloves to handle food without washing hands.
    — Michael Braga, The Arizona Republic, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Surely, the hairnet signaled that this cute, little vato was bound for San Quentin.
    — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The reports also recorded staff who didn't wear the proper protective hairnets and aprons—and didn't wash their hands.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The teenager, wearing a black hairnet, had arrived from Guatemala five years earlier, and this was his first day of work.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • In the video, Munn, 45, is in her hospital bed, hooked up to machines and wearing a hairnet.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • So here's to the Duchess of Cambridge continuing her hairnet streak.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 24 Oct. 2016
  • Today, Nonna Zoraida points to an apron hanging on the wall and hands me a hairnet.
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2025

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