How to Use skullcap in a Sentence

skullcap

noun
  • The burqa’s fabric falls from a skullcap fitted to the woman’s head.
    New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Devotees in long white robes and skullcaps sat close to each other or slept on mats on the ground.
    Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Junaid's brothers told NDTV that the attackers threw their skullcaps to the floor and pulled their beards.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 24 June 2017
  • Top it off with snow pants, waterproof shell, plus snow gloves, skullcap and ski cap, and glacier glasses.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Start by applying a skullcap, then use a pencil to draw the outline of the smile, making sure that your eyes and mouth are inside the line.
    Zoë Weiner, Teen Vogue, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Two men in Jewish skullcaps were attacked by three people in Berlin this week.
    Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Paolo pointed to the zucchetto, the Pope’s white skullcap, and sat in a chair that one of the clerics vacated for him.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Outside, a man dressed in all white with a traditional white skullcap sat on a bench.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Purslane and skullcap are antioxidants that calm and strengthen the skin.
    Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 3 Oct. 2022
  • She was last seen wearing a black wig, a black skullcap, purple glasses, a black and gray shirt and gray pants, police said.
    Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The first stop is a zimarra, fascia and zucchetto (a caped version of the long soutane, a belt and skullcap) worn by John Paul II.
    Rosemary Feitelberg | Wwd, latimes.com, 7 May 2018
  • The duo’s set on Friday attracted lots of bony youngsters in skullcaps.
    M.t. Richards, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • The remains, which include a skullcap, tooth, and thighbone, are the most famous items on a list of treasures Indonesia wants back.
    Byscience News Staff, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The suspect, described as a tall man in his late 30s or early 40s, was wearing a dark skullcap, dark jacket and dark-colored pants.
    Henri Hollis, ajc, 12 Mar. 2021
  • This man, about fifty or sixty, in a white kurta and skullcap with henna in his beard, is seated on a high bank so that his legs are visible above the counter that faces the street.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Some of the males wore skullcaps and thawbs, Arabic tunics, with their trousers tailored just above the ankles as per Muhammad’s example.
    Andy Ngo, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Sometimes resurgent anti-Semitism is violent and proud, as with the beating with a belt of two men wearing skullcaps in Berlin last spring.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • In recent years, partly because of warmer ocean water, much less sea ice has bobbed on the ocean off the coast of western and northern Alaska, and on the skullcap of the planet — the Arctic Ocean basin.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Troops brought them to their arraignments seven years ago in loose white clothing, skullcaps and canvas slippers, all issued by the prison.
    Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2019
  • He was affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and sported a long beard and skullcap, but left the movement in recent years.
    Max Kutner, Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2015
  • Donald Trump, who became the first U.S. president to visit the wall while in office, donned a yarmulke — a skullcap — which is customary; the site keeps stacks of them for visitors to wear.
    Seventeen, 25 May 2017
  • Donald Trump, who became the first U.S. president to visit the wall while in office, donned a yarmulke — a skullcap — which is customary; the site keeps stacks of them for visitors to wear.
    Darlene Superville, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
  • This formula contains herbs (chamomile, tulsi, skullcap, and milky oats) which may help to strengthen the nervous system by easing these highs and lows.
    Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2019
  • In April a Syrian migrant attacked an Israeli man wearing a skullcap in Berlin.
    Masada Siegel, WSJ, 25 June 2018
  • Trump, wearing a black skullcap, on Monday became the first sitting president to visit the Western Wall.
    Julie Pace, The Denver Post, 22 May 2017
  • The protest was triggered by the daytime assault last week of two young men wearing skullcaps in an upscale neighborhood in the German capital.
    Kirsten Grieshaber, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Olivier Gozlan said he was taken aback when colleagues in London encouraged him to wear a skullcap at work, something that is rare in France.
    Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2016
  • Sachs sat at his sentencing wearing a white yarmulke, the Jewish religious skullcap.
    Greg Fisher, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2016
  • Biden, wearing a skullcap, was invited to rekindle the eternal flame in the memorial's Hall of Remembrance.
    Arkansas Online, 14 July 2022
  • In response, many Germans donned the skullcap, in solidarity and protest.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2019

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