bandanna

Example Sentences

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At Parc de Bercy, Abdoulaye N. usually showed up on weekends, wearing a bandanna tied like an inverted headband and bringing fresh fruits for everybody, according to friends who trained with him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

“I’m gonna add a red bandanna and put Willie braids on it,” he says — a music nerd’s reference to the fabled honky-tonk that shuttered nearly three decades before he was born.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

Gryphon Woodson, a new high school graduate, grabbed a pair of goggles and a black bandanna to cover her face.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025

Clad in black, hair pulled up in a dark bandanna and lips stained bright red with lipstick, Velador looks like a modern, Chicana version of Rosie the Riveter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

That year, 1831, when Harriet regarded herself as sufficiently grown up to wear a bandanna, she kept hearing a strange, fascinating story, told and retold, in the quarter, in the fields.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry