How to Use headscarf in a Sentence

headscarf

noun
  • Large swaths of one floor selling scarves were focused on headscarves, or hijabs.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The female health workers were expected to walk in headscarves and long loose robes.
    — NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • There were headscarves knotted under the chin, chunky earrings, oversized shades, and playful handbags.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In the portrait, taken in the last few weeks, black smoke billows behind her as her fuchsia headscarf billows in the wind behind her.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Outside the trendy thrift shops and cafes, elderly women in headscarves sweep sidewalks with rustic brooms while teens whiz by on electric scooters.
    — Lori Rackl, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • Women effectively won the battle over headscarves.
    — Nahid Siamdoust, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • For a day out on the water, Jackie mastered monochromatism and lightened up in head-to-toe white, from her headscarf and shades right down to her sandals.
    — Andrea Cheng, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In Moscow, Emad was on stage, backed by a male band; beautiful in full make-up and long black and gold dress, some hair showing from under her headscarf.
    — Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • She was accused of not adhering to the government’s mandatory rules on headscarves for women and clothing restrictions.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
  • There were turbans and headscarves and oversized hair bows, and a young boy wearing a crown made from red, black and yellow paper, the colors representing Black history month.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2026
  • During her time in New York City, Kennedy Onassis often wore headscarves designed by Hermès.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In addition to headscarves, pistachio is another personal favorite of Shnaider’s.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
  • Signature accessories like pillbox hats, gloves, headscarves, and oversized sunglasses created polished looks that became iconic symbols of her distinct style.
    — Andrea Cheng, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The queen’s favorite Launer London handbags and silk headscarves are on display, as are her shoes, gloves, and the clear, color‑trimmed umbrellas that allowed her outfits to remain visible in all weather.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Frail elderly women, swathed in headscarves and saris, worshipped while sitting on puddled pavement near corroded metal changing lockers plastered with ads for Glow & Lovely skin cream.
    — Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Prize-winning Nasrin Sotoudeh, 64, is renowned for defending activists, opposition politicians and women prosecuted for removing their headscarves.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Sotoudeh, who is known for defending activists, opposition politicians and women prosecuted for removing their headscarves, was detained by Iranian intelligence agents at her house in Tehran in April.
    — Natalie Melzer, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • The conversation in the classroom doesn’t turn to the repressive regime or the state requirement of headscarves or the geopolitical strategies that have alienated the Islamic Republic of Iran from the global community.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The protests were the largest since a 2022 nationwide uprising sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody after she was arrested for allegedly wearing her headscarf improperly.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The protests were the largest since a 2022 nationwide uprising sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody after she was arrested for allegedly wearing her headscarf improperly.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Mass demonstrations also broke out in 2022 after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, died while detained by the morality police for allegedly wearing her headscarf improperly.
    — Efrat Lachter , Ruth Marks Eglash, FOXNews.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • In those messages, Rydman allegedly complained about Muslim women wearing headscarves and said disparaging things about people from Somalia, Nigeria and the Middle East.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Amelirad said Mohammadi had participated in anti-government protests that erupted earlier that year when Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being detained for not wearing her headscarf properly.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Amelirad said Mohammadi had participated in anti-government protests that erupted earlier that year when Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being detained for not wearing her headscarf properly.
    — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The last major round of protests came in 2022, spurred by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the theocratic government's forces for allegedly wearing her headscarf incorrectly.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The latter ignited a 2022 uprising when Mahsa Amini, 22, was dragged off the street by Iran’s morality police, a unit within the national police tasked with implementing Islamic codes, for not wearing her headscarf correctly.
    — Ellie Austin, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026

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