How to Use pith helmet in a Sentence

pith helmet

noun
  • None has come to mean more to me than the postman wearing a white pith helmet.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • From top to toe, pith helmet to platform shoe, animal prints are back with a vengeance.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
  • The White House has yet to release a statement on the pith helmet.
    — Ana Colón, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2018
  • There’s more to Ben Hollis than a pith helmet and safari shorts.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
  • He’s been known to wear a pith helmet while exploring both urban and rural terrain.
    — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Twante remains a place where many men in sarongs and bamboo pith helmets smoke cheroots and women balance baskets of vegetables on their heads.
    — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Likewise, the guest tents bear no trace of the colonial tropes—campaign chests, pith helmets—that have become so tired and problematic in safari lodgings.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The Chipwich debuts on the streets of New York, sold by a squad of 60 guerrilla cart vendors wearing khakis and pith helmets.
    — Jennifer Conrad, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Put on a pith helmet, go to a desert in Africa or the Middle East, dig up some skeletons and artifacts, and make inferences based on their physical attributes.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • While in Kenya, she was seen wearing a pith helmet — one that very closely resembles worn by colonial British soldiers in 19th-century Africa.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 7 Oct. 2018
  • Completing the ensemble was that unmistakable symbol of imperialism, the pith helmet or solar topee.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • But the first lady’s crowning misstep was to don a pith helmet, a move that one social-media commentator likened to wearing a Confederate uniform to meet with African-American cotton farmers.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Quickly, people across the globe pointed out the jarring image, as pith helmets have long been associated with colonial rule, particularly in Africa and parts of Asia and the Middle East, and are considered a symbol of oppression.
    — Ana Colón, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2018

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