How to Use bearskin in a Sentence

bearskin

noun

• The hearse left the Palace just after 9 a.m. on a gun carriage led by horses and flanked by royal guards wearing bearskin hats.
  — Olivia Blair, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
• Princess Kate's ensemble perfectly matched the plumes worn in the bearskin caps by the 1st Battalion Irish Guards.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• While Reynolds was lying naked on a bearskin rug, Sudeikis is stretched atop a wooden bench in Lasso's locker-room set.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 June 2021
• The longleaf pine, with its tufts of needles, some 18 inches long, looks a little like the bearskin hat worn by the Queen’s Guard, stuck on a teetering rack.
  — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• As the old and new guards faced each other, impassive under their bearskin hats, the bandleader raised his baton.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2020
• Two officers and 32 troops from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in red uniforms and bearskin hats walked on either side of the gun carriage.
  — Mike Corder, Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2022
• But Mr Johnson fits them as snugly as a bearskin hat on a guard outside Buckingham Palace.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• Grenadier and Scots guards dressed in red uniforms and tall bearskin caps marched in front of the procession, while a band played funeral marches from Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Chopin.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• Henry Dynov-Teixeira, eight, was all dressed up for the occasion in a bright red suit and hat just like the bearskin ones worn by the personal troops to the Sovereign.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 1 Dec. 2022
• The queen and first lady stayed on the dais as the president inspected the red-uniformed and bearskin-capped Guard of Honor assembled on the castle grounds..
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 13 June 2021
• The first couple stood talking to the Queen for a few moments before turning to face a cordon of red-uniformed Grenadier Guards wearing bearskin hats.
  — Natasha Bertrand, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• The plan calls for an altar, the pall (a large cloth draping the coffin), the royal standard and four Grenadier Guards, their bearskin hats inclined, their rifles pointing to the floor, standing watch.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• At Buckingham Palace, the famous bearskin hat-wearing guards broke their composure to drink water, brought to them in teacups by their colleagues.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 19 July 2022
• To the clicking of cameras, two Guardsmen in their red tunics and bearskin helmets marched toward the palace, stepping aside to allow an ambulance to pass.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 June 2022
• Jacob Chansley, a 33-year-old from Arizona who was photographed inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 wearing face paint and a bearskin outfit with horns, has agreed to a plea deal, court records show.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 2 Sep. 2021
• The bearskins probably came from Iceland or northern Norway.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• The bearskins probably came from Iceland or northern Norway.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• The shirtless man seen in photos from the riot inside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, dressed in tan pants and a bearskin headdress with horns, has been arrested and charged in federal court.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2021
• Once the parade began, Prince William and Prince Charles rode horseback—as is tradition—dressed in full military garb, including medals and bearskin hats.
  — Erin Reimel, Glamour, 17 June 2017
• Handyman quotes one agent about a seller who insisted on leaving a bearskin rug in place, until prospects’ complaints mounted.
  — Andy Warren, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• Famed throughout the world for their distinctive bearskin caps, the queen's company of grenadier guards is one of the oldest and most senior regiments of the British Army, according to the U.K.'s defense ministry.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• As one of more than 1,000 soldiers who took part in the ceremony, Lall wore a black turban with a ceremonial cap star to match the ones on the traditional bearskin hats.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 June 2018
• Grenadier Guards wore bright red tunics and their famous bearskin hats, others were draped in ceremonial swan feathers.
  — Kevin Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
• Chansley was identified as the man seen in media coverage who entered the Capitol building shirtless and wearing horns, a bearskin headdress and red-white-and-blue face paint.
  — Sebastian Tong and Luke McGrath, Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
• Clad in his ceremonial military uniform, Charles rode onto the parade ground on horseback and took the salute of the passing troops in their scarlet tunics and bearskin hats.
  — Danica Kirka, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• Over the years, Clarence spent countless nights on our floor, countless days on our bearskin couch, drinking coffee and telling stories, teasing us boys, watching my dad bend sled runners, waiting to see what my mom would pull out of the wood oven.
  — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2019
• The soldiers, who don iconic red tunics and tall black bearskin caps, are not just accessories to provide tourists with a photo opportunity.
  — Zoha Qamar, CNN, 27 June 2017
• Though the funeral may have been simple by royal standards, the procession across the grounds of Windsor Castle was attended by more than 730 members of the armed forces, many in scarlet tunics and bearskin hats.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
• In legend, berserkers often dressed in the hides of the wild animals from whom they were said to derive their savage power — typically wolves or bears (their name comes from the old Norse word berserkr, meaning bearskin or bear-shirt).
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• About 1,400 soldiers in ceremonial scarlet coats and bearskin hats marched past the queen in a ceremony on Horse Guards Parade in Westminster.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019

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