hood
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Architect William Van Alen modelled the eagle gargoyles on hood ornaments found on the 1929 Chrysler car.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
A white BMW also appears in the footage with dents in the hood of the car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“It’ll be slick as a car hood from the slime on their bellies,” Walters says.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“After looking even deeper under the hood as the owners of Foot Locker, our conviction that we can turn this business around is only growing,” Stack said last November.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
I push my hood away from my face.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
A resident told UK media she had alerted emergency services after seeing three vans blocking a road near the village and a group of men wearing hoods and balaclavas.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I stuck to slapping the hoods and windows of so many cars that my hand turned black with soot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Chief Executive Mary Barra’s first job as a co-op student was inspecting Pontiac hoods and fenders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
"She knows what she was told was based on false hoods... She should out the newspapers on the offering of money for stories."
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
Their hoods and thick coats make them look like the fat iguanas that cling to the bright-red flamboyant trees back home.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi has alleged he was abducted by armed men and handed over "hooded and bound" to FBI agents, who had a plane waiting to fly him out of the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Osaka took the court wearing a long, hooded gown — possibly inspired by Iverson’s hoodies and baggy clothes from back in the day — with newspaper clippings about her attached to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The group also says that in January 2020 more than 2,000 hooded vultures were found dead in Guinea-Bissau, many with their heads removed - a sign of belief-based practices rather than natural causes, researchers say.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But merging in along the route were sections of masked, hooded invidividuals, many dressed all in in black.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
On the green there waited, still and silent, the hooded Rangers.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The upper tends to address hooding and volume loss of the eyelid, while the lower focuses on puffiness and dark circles or hollowing under the eye, says Dr. Flora Levin, a Connecticut-based oculoplastic surgeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Zhang, an award-winning author of “How Much of These Hills Is Gold” and “Land of Milk and Honey,” was scheduled to speak at the May 8 education school doctoral hooding ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
She attended a Baptist pastor’s hooding ceremony, a public event for a Japanese sister city, and a luau held by a local nonprofit’s C.E.O.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
The army general who ran UK military operations during the Iraq war has said he did not know about a 1972 ruling banning the hooding of detainees.
From BBC ● May 18, 2010
Jon went from one mews to another, hooding each occupant and carrying it to his tour van.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
