How to Use headdress in a Sentence

headdress

noun
  • The dancers wore ceremonial headdresses.
  • When there is a goal, people will cheer and wave flags or even their headdress.
    — Jay Harris, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • No need to go back to high school to learn the secret to the hair-roller headdress.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Here was an Arab eating kosher food in a headdress made for a kid.
    — Harrison Smith, latimes.com, 9 June 2018
  • And the look for me isn't complete without a hat or some kind of headdress.
    — Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The tip of the headdress is shaped like a cobra, a feature known as a uraeus.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Their long crimson gowns and winged white headdresses made the point.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The highest, at about 46 feet, wears a red headdress known as a pukao.
    — Nic McCormack, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
  • As a cow or a woman, Hathor wears a headdress of two cow horns with a sun disc.
    — Lola Méndez, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The goddess wears a headdress featuring a pair of cow horns and a sun disc.
    — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The mother figure wears a steel headdress and stands on a metal box.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The headdress became more elaborate with the gold on top of the head.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Roche said a family from the tribe gave the camp a headdress that is on display.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The brooch the princess wore featured a black figure donning a gold headdress and robe.
    — Meghan Markle, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The oldest was buried with weapons and an elaborate headdress.
    — National Geographic, 18 June 2020
  • Cardi was certainly dressed for the show in her thigh-high leather boots, headdress, and trench-coat dress.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The birthday girl wore a full-face mask with a giant feather headdress and a black velvet cape.
    — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The leader wears the headdress for football and basketball games.
    — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The piece, which shows a bird headdress, was scheduled to go to auction in Paris but has since been withdrawn.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
  • One through line between the films and the series are the headdresses, veils and hair jewelry.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Per the statement, the artist arranged the board’s darts in a formation that alludes to a headdress.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
  • Scott built the headdresses from a collection of feathers.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
  • After the feather was plucked from the princess' headdress last July, townsfolk wrote it off as a loss.
    — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • An African feather headdress and a black-and-white photo of Paris make for an eclectic mix.
    — Anna Logan, Country Living, 21 June 2023
  • The school changed its use of a headdress and dancing at games and removed a peace pipe and a tomahawk from the school's symbol.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Its headdress — sprouts of branches and birds — has a Tim Burton fever-dream eeriness.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2022
  • The chief dressed in maroon pants, a white top with red linear pattern and a headdress, the Mirror noted.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The 18-year-old wore a Yup’ik headdress, received her first dance fans and was blessed by her grandmother.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
  • The cover depicts a blond, fair-skinned man holding up a mask with the face of a Yanomami man in a feather headdress.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • While her husband lit cones of incense, Amarjargal donned the shaman's headdress, known as an umsgol.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024

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