How to Use turban in a Sentence

turban

noun
  • There was a young man who wore a turban and a soft bushy beard.
    — Celeste Ng, Bon Appétit, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Her burgundy dress wrapped her body and was matched with a turban.
    — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • One of my new favorite things is this hair turban from Aquis.
    — Jessica Kasparian, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Head wraps and turbans seem to be trending in the world of hair and fashion.
    — Eman Bare, Teen Vogue, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Princess Grace wore a lime-green dress and jacket with a white turban.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Four men, clad in white with black turbans, face a pile of instruments on fire.
    — Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Every failure of the state now stains the turban as well as the uniform.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Hoja calmly takes off his turban and places it on the villager’s head.
    — Perin Gürel, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Some faces were obscured by the turbans Sikhs wear as a symbol of their faith.
    — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2018
  • Two judges have just been seated by ushers wearing white-and-gold turbans.
    — Iain Marlow, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2018
  • Then armed men in black turbans, as if to justify their fear, opened fire into the crowd.
    — Jazzmin Jiwa, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Headscarfs and turbans that can protect your beachy 'do and save you from sweaty hairlines.
    — The Editors, Marie Claire, 6 June 2019
  • Keeping it unshorn and tied up in a turban is a key tenet of his religion.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • Grab a hair turban twist, old towel, or throw an old t-shirt over your pillow case and sleep with the mask overnight.
    — Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The 5-to-8-meter-long turban, or pagh, is wrapped over the patka.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The cool, clean contrasts of her white turban and dark clothes make the portrait one of Ray’s finest.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Marley twists are carefully woven and wrapped around her head like a turban made of yarn.
    — Allure, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The turbans, Cooper said, obscured the faces of many those who traded blows.
    — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The best microfiber towel is the turban-style version from Aquis.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Prince, still wearing the gold turban, then chucked the cardboard into the back of the truck themself.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 June 2021
  • André loved dressing to the nines on campus with his custom suits, capes, brooches and turbans.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Khamenei wore the turban of a senior Shiite cleric.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
  • This platinum silver turban helps to channel your inner diva and turn a few heads at the same time.
    — Essence, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Many Sikhs wear a turban and do not cut their hair or shave their beards as an outward commitment to their faith.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
  • His body was wrapped in a white boubou, and a turban hid his entire face, except for a pair of large, dark sunglasses.
    — Steven Levingston, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The woman wears a turban, with the rifle held above her right shoulder angled toward the top of the frame.
    — Emmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The noon sun was at its peak, forcing me to wrap my scarf around my head like a turban to protect myself from the burning heat.
    — Fahad Shah, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2015
  • The matching hat was designed to resemble a turban.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • She was hanged; her body thrown in the river and is often spotted wearing a green turban to hide her missing ear.
    — Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • After the ugliness of the past day-and-a-half--Obama wears turban!
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018

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