How to Use hairnet in a Sentence

hairnet

noun

• The princess has even used a hairnet in the past to keep her updo in place.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2018
• Both wore a sort of thin metallic hairnet, with wires snaking down the back of their necks.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Kate has even been known to wear a hairnet to keep her updo in place.
  — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• In 2015, a machine caught the hairnet of an Ohio worker and ripped off part of her scalp.
  — Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• True love is when your partner agrees to wear a hairnet to ride go-carts.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
• The journey doesn’t end once new hires earn their hairnet.
  — Tara Adhikari, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2022
• Her husband was allowed in, wearing a mask and gloves and a hairnet.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• Co-host Chrissy Tiegen even wore a hairnet and held a lunch tray for the performance.
  — Jamie Spain, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2018
• As to the second: What better excuse to buy a helmet—or a hairnet—of your own?
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2019
• Not through gloves, goggles, a mask, a hairnet, a hazmat suit and plastic sheets.
  — Lotte Bowser, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• Workers in the plant wear hairnets and gloves that need to be discarded every day.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2017
• The rooms are tended only by a small crew of workers in hairnets and white smocks, four workers per shift.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• In the prep area, men and women in hairnets and aprons carried plates away from clouds of steam rising above trays filled with sweet potatoes.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• On another bench, a woman in a hairnet and gloves was on her way to a hospital shift.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
• A few weeks earlier, nine boys at the high school had donned hairnets and white aprons over prison-orange jumpsuits with cash taped on them.
  — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• The teenager, wearing a black hairnet, had arrived from Guatemala five years earlier, and this was his first day of work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• So here's to the Duchess of Cambridge continuing her hairnet streak.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 24 Oct. 2016
• Surely, the hairnet signaled that this cute, little vato was bound for San Quentin.
  — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Then, aprons, hairnets and gloves are donned as groups are assigned to different food stations.
  — Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• The slight 66-year-old stands over the A’s grill wielding a spatula, a hairnet stretched over her dark bun and a red apron around her waist, waiting for her son to put her out of a job.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 21 June 2018
• Hesse put on a red hairnet, a blue lab coat, and a pair of white plastic clogs—mandatory cavewear—and made her way down a spiral staircase.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• The women don’t earn much to begin with, and fear having to wear hairnets, issue receipts, and pay taxes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• As the ballplayers tapped on their keyboards, and Manny waited on the couch, Sherwin and Muraskin shushed about, adjusting the hairnets.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Once everything was in tact, a beige hairnet was stretched over the bun with excess netting twisted and tightened for a nice grip.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 24 Oct. 2016
• Runza, meanwhile, read Chin’s Buzzfeed post and clapped back like a lunch lady having a bad hairnet day.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Oct. 2017
• Because his look was topped off by a hairnet, teachers acted as if José couldn’t be trusted to sharpen a pencil.
  — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Staff members must wear heavy protective gear beneath their gown, along with gloves, a mask, an eye shield and a hairnet, all just to protect from blood and body fluids.
  — Leah Asmelash and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2019
• Some of us are even wearing hairnets as an extra level of protection.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• Those goods include everything from hairnets to ice hockey gloves, and from pumpkins to billiard balls.
  — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Two women in hairnets transferred rice and meat from coolers into large aluminum pans.
  — Andrea Sachs, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024