How to Use hijab in a Sentence

hijab

noun

• Nike has launched new swimwear designed for athletes who wear a hijab.
  — Jasmine Aguilera, Time, 10 Dec. 2019
• But the prospect of playing for France again became elusive with the hijab ban.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 19 July 2024
• She was subsequently taken to a private room and ordered to remove her hijab again, even though male staffers were still present.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2019
• The other is a set of separate pieces, including a tunic, leggings, and hijab.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 10 Dec. 2019
• Nike has followed up on its groundbreaking performance hijab with a new design for modest swimwear (better known as a burkini).
  — Margaret Rhodes, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2019
• Beckett allegedly later directed other managers to not hire anyone who wore a hijab.
  — Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press, 30 Jan. 2020
• The stabbings followed what prosecutors and witnesses said was a racist and xenophobic tirade that appeared to be aimed at two teenage girls, one wearing a hijab.
  — oregonlive, 31 Jan. 2020
• After the woman pushed Campbell away, Campbell forcibly took the hijab, prosecutors said.
  — Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• But instead of a revealing swimsuit, Aden modeled brightly colored hijabs and modest burkinis, her body covered from head to toe.
  — Essence Staff, Essence, 23 Dec. 2019
• Elturk's mission has always been to empower Muslim women to feel confident wearing the hijab and to see it in the mainstream.
  — Bisma Parvez, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2019
• Many of the clients feel a kinship to Bayat, a young woman who wears a black hijab and speaks Dari and Farsi, languages of Afghanistan, her parents’ birthplace.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Nike went through 55 prototypes before landing on a hydrodynamically designed hijab that won’t budge during laps.
  — Ana Colón, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2019
• This isn't the same as a hijab, which covers the head and not the face.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 June 2020
• The regime just tries to reduce [the protest movement] to the hijab.
  — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Kids kicked me, called me fat, and tried to take off my hijab.
  — Imen Siar, SPIN, 9 Sep. 2022
• The car stopped, and a woman in a hijab climbed inside.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
  — CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Masih understands that the hijab is the weakest pillar of the three.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
• Drought to change: Baarud, a five-month-old camel, tugs at Aadar Mohamed's hijab.
  — Karla Gachet, National Geographic, 22 June 2020
• Pinkney got into the truck, grabbed the woman’s neck with one hand and grabbed at her hijab with the other.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• Many women in Iran are fed up with having to wear a hijab.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2022
• There were also the women’s hijabs and the men’s thobes that seemed to disappear on the far side of the city’s border.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• More than anyone else, Masih Alinejad has taught me that a hijab is more than a piece of cloth.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the clip, a woman wearing a hijab claimed to be a nurse at a hospital in Gaza.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Only her eyes are visible; the rest wrapped in a face mask, hijab, and burqa.
  — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
• My grandmother and all my aunts wear a full hijab chador.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Last year, for example, hijabs and kufi caps were added to The Sims 4.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
• The hijab has been obligatory for all women in Iran since the early 1980s.
  — Amin Khodadadi, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• Last week, the French Senate approved a measure to ban the hijab for women under the age of 18.
  — Hoda Katebi, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
• In France, for example, Muslim women on the host country’s Olympic team are not allowed to wear hijabs.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024