hood
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She was invited there as a guest and says she caught the eye of Hollywood megastar Zendaya, thanks to her custom look: a striking gold gown complete with a hood.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Photos released by the sheriff’s department show a dark, late-model sedan with a crushed hood and a damaged front bumper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The person was wearing a hat with a hood over it, making identification difficult for police.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Yet recent signs point to another shift taking place under the hood of the stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
It gave a sudden, deliberate flick, whipping back Clare’s hood.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Both kept their hoods up throughout proceedings and their faces covered by masks so large only their eyes were still visible.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The thin aluminum sheets produced at the plant are later stamped into fenders, hoods and other exterior vehicle parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
She looked through the pinhole and saw two men wearing hoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
A Public Space Protection Order has been imposed at Chelmsley Wood to stop gatherings of young people and to require the removal of masks and hoods.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
One tore the whip from Brum’s hand, the others snatched the hoods and masks from the startled drüskelle s faces, rendering them vulnerable.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim sang Alessandro with a hooded quality and too much vibrato; he sounded messy, especially in the big register jumps of his agitated Act 2 aria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
His press conferences are almost theatrically placid, Brunson often slouched in a hat and/or hooded sweatshirt and deflecting any effort to valorize his success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Walking down a makeshift runway in a top-floor studio, a model pulls on a translucent, hooded jacket embedded with LED lights.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
In one of the videos, Jerí could be seen wearing a hooded top during a late-night visit at one of Yang's restaurants.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
What she did not usually expect, however, was a hooded man in black at her side—as there was now.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Their accounts echo those of the Negra Francisca crew: cuffing and hooding by armed English-speakers before being turned over to a Salvadoran patrol craft, which took them to El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
“I never thought I would get plastic surgery,” said Caruso, who opted in after noticing that her eyeliner no longer showed up on her eyes due to hooding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
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
Gollum blinked, hooding the malice of his eyes with their heavy pale lids.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
