bandanna

Example Sentences

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At Parc de Bercy, Abdoulaye N. usually showed up on weekends, wearing a bandanna tied like an inverted headband and bringing fresh fruits for everybody, according to friends who trained with him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

As we worked, one of the farmworkers, Mimi, who wore two long-sleeved shirts and sunscreen to protect her skin, gave me a pink bandanna to shield my neck.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

Look closely, and “Smile now, cry later” is etched into the clear glass below a suspended bandanna, a gently admonishing song lyric by Sunny and the Sunliners, the 1960s Chicano R&B group.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

Clad in black, hair pulled up in a dark bandanna and lips stained bright red with lipstick, Velador looks like a modern, Chicana version of Rosie the Riveter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

The master would say she was wearing rough clothes when she ran away, that she had a bandanna on her head, that she was muscular and strong.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry