How to Use sombrero in a Sentence

sombrero

noun
  • The sombrero and mustache were back, too.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 23 May 2025
  • He was last seen wearing sweatpants and a brown sombrero-style hat.
    — Alex Riggins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • Such games, sometimes called platinum sombreros, are quite rare.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The clip showed Jeffries in a fake sombrero and mustache.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The owners kept the name and the logo, which shows a man in a sombrero passed out in a wooden tub.
    — Sarah Gish, kansascity.com, 4 May 2017
  • There were smiles and sombreros when the team arrived in Guadalajara in June.
    — Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Then the sombrero appears and the music begins.
    — Jesse Byrnes, The Hill, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her brother Goyo Perez, 82, wore a sombrero and walked with a cane.
    — Laura Rodriguez Presa, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2024
  • In baseball, hitters who strike out four times in a single game are said to have earned the golden sombrero.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Brown did get his first golden sombrero (four strikeouts) on Sunday.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Small green people, wearing bowties and sombreros strode over to him, all holding what appeared to be… ray guns?
    — cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019
  • There’s still a blue goose wearing a sombrero and playing a guitar painted on the brick wall near a side patio.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
  • Horn received the golden sombrero, which goes to the Vaquero of the game.
    — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • He was mounted on a mule, in a wide sombrero and rough riding trousers, making his usual rounds of the diocese.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • The players were dressed in their impressive uniforms, sombreros leaned on the floor against their music stands.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The famous bird greets guests in a sombrero and poncho for photo ops in front of an ancient Aztec pyramid.
    — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 9 June 2019
  • Horn, who walked just one and struck out one, has now received the sombrero six times in her four-year Vaqueros career.
    — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Lionel Shriver is wearing a sombrero while discussing right to be a bigot.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • On Friday, Renfroe earned a golden sombrero, striking out in all four of his at-bats.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • The 35-year-old club soccer coach and mother of three is known for her pink overalls, a sombrero and a legendary set of lungs.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The first-year starter put on a sombrero and joined Auburn students in the stands after the 44-23 win.
    — Alex Martin Smith, ajc, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Ken sports a charro outfit and a traditional sombrero.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Jeffries was depicted with a cartoon sombrero and mustache.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 23 May 2025
  • The post featured Jeffries in a sombrero with mariachi music playing.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Now there’s also the sombrero that has replaced the awful Swagg Chain following home runs.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • By comparing the mass of the Higgs boson to that of the top quark, physicists now think that the sombrero most likely dips down again.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 July 2024
  • The couple emblazoned the restaurant with a cheeky panda bear dressed in a sombrero and a handlebar mustache.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2021
  • Guests are encouraged to wear a fiesta shirt or a sombrero to do the Mexican Hat dance.
    — Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The video shows Jeffries blasting the first video the president posted depicting him in a sombrero.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Aaron Jones is known for rocking his green and gold sombrero for road trips to pay homage to his El Paso, Texas, roots.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022

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