doff

Example Sentences

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When they arrive, there is a ceremonial greeting, where the Lords doff their black bicorn hats and the Commons representatives acknowledge this by bowing.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

And let us doff our currently nonexistent hats to the ferry employee who was NOT about to allow some dude to get away with cutting ahead of us in line.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2023

We’re a competitive bunch here, but today we doff our hats to our friends at Axios.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022

I don’t honestly care if people politely doff their hats at each other or shake hands cordially or if politicians call their adversaries on the other side of the aisle “my distinguished colleague.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2022

No official ever decided that respectable men and women were permitted to doff their hats and gloves in the 1960s or to get pierced and tattooed in the 1990s.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker