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How to use headband in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Headband means a strip of fabric worn around the head. Example: “Deep side part it, make a low ponytail and add a classic headband.”

More sentences with headband

  • Deep side part it, make a low ponytail and add a classic headband.2020 July 10, Kathleen Beckett, “Hair Today, Jeweled for Tomorrow”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry blow dry
  • Fourteen years old, dressed from head to toe in camouflage gear, with a Stallonesque headband and pimples.2012, Tom Holt, Djinn Rummy, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry Stallonesque
  • She sported an Ellenesque aqua sweater set that day complete with matching headband.2007, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, Kensington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 154. From the entry Ellenesque
  • A cornerboy who wore a headband threw what looked like a lead pipe.1988, Tim Spofford, Lynch Street: The May 1970 Slayings at Jackson State College, Kent, Ohio; London: The Kent State University Press…. From the entry cornerboy
  • A beast, like Calydon's of yore, Boasts headbands never bristler wore.1907, Martial, Epigrams, page 77. From the entry bristler
  • Immediately Victoria took off her headband that had a witch's hat on it and gave it to the girl.2017, Cynthia Staton, Life Lived Not Lost: A Journey of Hope, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry trunk or treat
  • The Catweazle beard, the headband, the long flowing locks and he’s got to be the gingerest footballer ever (sorry Scholesy).2010, James Chambers, “Alexi Lalas: The Genre Buster, General Custer”, in Footballers’ Haircuts: A New History, London: Weidenfeld &…. From the entry ginger
  • A new generation is already taking to the silk scarf in hair and around necks, velvet headbands as well as pearls and pie crusts.2020 November 26, Lauren Cochrane, “Pie crusts and pearls: the unexpected return of the Sloane Ranger”, in The Guardian. From the entry pie crust
  • The headbands were worn on the forehead and fastened behind, so the top of the head was open and untressed hair flowed down the back.2004, Catherine Richardson, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650. From the entry untressed
  • Basically, you can pry my TERF bangs from my cold, dead forehead—unless you tell me they’re actively doing harm, in which case I guess it’s headbands for a while.2019, Anonymous, quoted in Danny M. Lavery, "Help! My Stepfather Told Me He Had a Sex Dream About Me.", Slate, 6 August 2019. From the entry terf bangs

Meaning of headband

  1. noun A strip of fabric worn around the head.
  2. noun A hair accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back.
  3. noun A strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement.

Full definition of headband

Questions about headband in a sentence

How do you use headband in a sentence?
Headband is used as a noun. For example: “Deep side part it, make a low ponytail and add a classic headband.”
What is a short sentence with headband?
“A beast, like Calydon's of yore, Boasts headbands never bristler wore.”
What does headband mean?
Headband means a strip of fabric worn around the head.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headband (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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