How to Use skullcap in a Sentence

skullcap

noun
  • Devotees in long white robes and skullcaps sat close to each other or slept on mats on the ground.
    — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The burqa’s fabric falls from a skullcap fitted to the woman’s head.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Top it off with snow pants, waterproof shell, plus snow gloves, skullcap and ski cap, and glacier glasses.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Outside, a man dressed in all white with a traditional white skullcap sat on a bench.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • There are no symbols that identify you, like a skullcap or a hijab.
    — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Purslane and skullcap are antioxidants that calm and strengthen the skin.
    — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Two men in Jewish skullcaps were attacked by three people in Berlin this week.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • She was last seen wearing a black wig, a black skullcap, purple glasses, a black and gray shirt and gray pants, police said.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The duo’s set on Friday attracted lots of bony youngsters in skullcaps.
    — M.t. Richards, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • The model naps on a couch while clad in a skullcap and undershirt, scratching his back as his trousers fall below his waist.
    — M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
  • He's shown wearing a black skullcap, black facemask on his chin, red sweatshirt and red sweatpants, and sneakers.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Owens is wearing a black skullcap, black slouchy cotton shorts and black leather sneakers with thick white rubber soles, all designed by him.
    — Nick Haramis Ola Rindal Dogukan Nesanir, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The skullcaps and dark robes transported him back to the Harlem synagogue of his childhood.
    — Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Start by applying a skullcap, then use a pencil to draw the outline of the smile, making sure that your eyes and mouth are inside the line.
    — Zoë Weiner, Teen Vogue, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Troops brought them to their arraignments seven years ago in loose white clothing, skullcaps and canvas slippers, all issued by the prison.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Sachs sat at his sentencing wearing a white yarmulke, the Jewish religious skullcap.
    — Greg Fisher, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2016
  • Paolo pointed to the zucchetto, the Pope’s white skullcap, and sat in a chair that one of the clerics vacated for him.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The remains, which include a skullcap, tooth, and thighbone, are the most famous items on a list of treasures Indonesia wants back.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This formula contains herbs (chamomile, tulsi, skullcap, and milky oats) which may help to strengthen the nervous system by easing these highs and lows.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2019
  • This man, about fifty or sixty, in a white kurta and skullcap with henna in his beard, is seated on a high bank so that his legs are visible above the counter that faces the street.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In response, many Germans donned the skullcap, in solidarity and protest.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2019
  • The man had a squarish white beard and a dark chasia, or skullcap, and his eyes were like my father's—soft and a little sad, with the eyelids drooping at the outer corners.
    — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Junaid's brothers told NDTV that the attackers threw their skullcaps to the floor and pulled their beards.
    — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 24 June 2017
  • Sometimes resurgent anti-Semitism is violent and proud, as with the beating with a belt of two men wearing skullcaps in Berlin last spring.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The bullet had apparently ricocheted inside around his skull, or the calvarium (skullcap), and had not hurt him.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2017
  • Some of the males wore skullcaps and thawbs, Arabic tunics, with their trousers tailored just above the ankles as per Muhammad’s example.
    — Andy Ngo, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
  • There’s also lemon balm, oatstraw, lavender, and skullcap in this tea, which came highly recommended from a flower-essence therapist friend of mine.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Surveillance camera footage showed a man beside a bus stop donning a kippah, or traditional skullcap, before a passerby with a knife lunges at him.
    — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The protest was triggered by the daytime assault last week of two young men wearing skullcaps in an upscale neighborhood in the German capital.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The production created a fiberglass skullcap for the actress to wear that had animatronic appendages mounted to the top of it.
    — Craigh Barboza, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021

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