cowl
Example Sentences
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Finding a suit and cowl made just for him, Damian transforms into Little Batman in order to safeguard Wayne Manor and Gotham City from villains, including a rather mischievous Joker.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
“We kind of looked at it as having a superhero donning his cape and cowl, but what’s behind that?”
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Batman’s cowl and Iron Man’s mask appear in Briscoe’s paintings, but another sort of comics character especially haunts “Thought Bubbles,” the artist’s DC Arts Center show.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
What is the same is the ears, the sigil and the cowl.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2023
Govinda looked attentively at the monk in the yellow cowl, who could not be distinguished in any way from the hundreds of other monks, and yet Govinda soon recognized him.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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