How to Use hijab in a Sentence

hijab

noun
  • Liu wraps her scarf around her head like a hijab.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Kids kicked me, called me fat, and tried to take off my hijab.
    — Imen Siar, SPIN, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Among these were the rule that women wear hijabs to hide their hair.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 4 June 2026
  • Women and girls were dressed in hijabs, niqabs and abayas (robes).
    — Andy Ngo, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
  • This isn't the same as a hijab, which covers the head and not the face.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 June 2020
  • The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
    — CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Her captors dressed her in a hijab and drove her in circles for two hours.
    — Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Gagne wrote, noting that one girl in the group was wearing a hijab.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The women adjust hard hats over hijabs and pull on knee-high boots.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The regime just tries to reduce [the protest movement] to the hijab.
    — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The woman was not wearing a hijab.
    — Barry Hoffner, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Police said one of the two young women on the train was wearing a hijab.
    — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 28 May 2017
  • But my mom and my dad have taught me to wear the hijab for religious reasons.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Rights groups have been outraged over the hijab law and the cruel ways it is enforced.
    — Artemis Moshtaghian and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Women wearing hijabs and burqas spilled in, taking their seats on the left.
    — Jo Becker, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Only her eyes are visible; the rest wrapped in a face mask, hijab, and burqa.
    — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Time for the dancing to stop, to put on the hijab and to take our seat, quietly.
    — Talla Mountjoy, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Time for the dancing to stop, to put on the hijab and to take our seat, quietly.
    — Talla Mountjoy, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Her sister-in law Bayan, her face wrapped by a tartan hijab, agrees.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The drag show was a joyful blast of pure pop camp, where fans in hijabs posed for selfies with the drag stars.
    — Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In Beirut, women had a choice; some chose the hijab, but others didn’t.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • Large swaths of one floor selling scarves were focused on headscarves, or hijabs.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Women in hijabs stood beside men in work polos.
    — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The hijab sells for $35 and is available in black in sizes from extra-small to large.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The 2022–23 protests did not at first move the regime an inch on hijab.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Pinkney got into the truck, grabbed the woman’s neck with one hand and grabbed at her hijab with the other.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • She and her friends are made to wear hijabs and worship a different God.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The video shows a woman in a hijab walking down a tunnel, followed by a young girl and two boys.
    — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But the prospect of playing for France again became elusive with the hijab ban.
    — Armani Syed, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • One of the teeangers was Muslim and wearing a hijab, while the other was black.
    — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2017

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