How to Use hijab in a Sentence

hijab

noun
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  • This isn't the same as a hijab, which covers the head and not the face.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 June 2020
  • The regime just tries to reduce [the protest movement] to the hijab.
    — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Kids kicked me, called me fat, and tried to take off my hijab.
    — Imen Siar, SPIN, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The car stopped, and a woman in a hijab climbed inside.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
    — CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Masih understands that the hijab is the weakest pillar of the three.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Drought to change: Baarud, a five-month-old camel, tugs at Aadar Mohamed's hijab.
    — Karla Gachet, National Geographic, 22 June 2020
  • Pinkney got into the truck, grabbed the woman’s neck with one hand and grabbed at her hijab with the other.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Many women in Iran are fed up with having to wear a hijab.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2022
  • There were also the women’s hijabs and the men’s thobes that seemed to disappear on the far side of the city’s border.
    — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
  • More than anyone else, Masih Alinejad has taught me that a hijab is more than a piece of cloth.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In the clip, a woman wearing a hijab claimed to be a nurse at a hospital in Gaza.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Only her eyes are visible; the rest wrapped in a face mask, hijab, and burqa.
    — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
  • My grandmother and all my aunts wear a full hijab chador.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Last year, for example, hijabs and kufi caps were added to The Sims 4.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The hijab has been obligatory for all women in Iran since the early 1980s.
    — Amin Khodadadi, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Last week, the French Senate approved a measure to ban the hijab for women under the age of 18.
    — Hoda Katebi, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Durrni allegedly pulled on the woman's hijab, told her to take it off, and then punched her in the arm.
    — Rob Frehse and Amir Vera, CNN, 29 July 2021
  • The video shows a woman in a hijab walking down a tunnel, followed by a young girl and two boys.
    — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But because of my hijab the young boy saw me only as Muslim.
    — Dahaba Ali Hussen, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Maryam Hasan moves among them in a bright tunic and hijab, cleaning up, stopping to play or give a hug.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Growing a beard, wearing a hijab, and going to the Mosque, among others.
    — Hoda Katebi, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Aden was the first woman to sport a hijab and burkini in the magazine, SI revealed in April 2019.
    — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
  • On Election Day, Shah wore a red striped turtleneck, a blue hijab, and white jeans and sneakers.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • In 2019, the issue for the first time featured a model wearing a hijab and burkini.
    — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
  • Extreme punitive measures The hijab has long been a point of contention in Iran.
    — Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Hasan, who chooses to wear a hijab, said Azam taught her and her friends that clothing does not limit them.
    — Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Her open challenge to the mandatory hijab rule in place in Iran for the last 40 years did not go unnoticed.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Laws require all women to at least wear a headscarf, or hijab, to cover their hair as a sign of piety.
    — Jon Gambrell and Mike Corder, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The student is now wearing a hijab, a Muslim headscarf, to school.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Aug. 2022

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