dunce

Example Sentences

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It’s about as academically relevant to today’s students as Sadie Hawkins Day, and as necessary as a dunce cap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

From Salon • May 5, 2023

Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

No word on whether a dunce cap has been issued.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2021

Almost everywhere I looked the dunce caps appeared, and I filled a bag in less than an hour.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan