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How to use visor in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Visor means a part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. Example: “My visor was covered in mud, and I had used up all the tear-offs.”

More sentences with visor

  • My visor was covered in mud, and I had used up all the tear-offs.From the entry tear-off
  • These do not appear to have ever have been made with a visor of any sort.2018, Douglas Strong, Surviving Examples of Early Plate Armour (1300-1430): Volume I: Bascinets, ISD LLC, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry cervelliere
  • Nice hair.” ¶ I pull down the visor and try not to laugh.2005, Dandi Daley Mackall, Love Rules, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry caligynephobia
  • In place of the visor, the barbute enclosed most of the face, leaving only relatively small openings for the eyes, nose, and mouth.2018, Paul B. Newman, Daily Life in the Middle Ages, McFarland, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry barbute
  • At first, they would wear a metal cap and mail coif under a larger greathelm, but later helmets such as bascinets had removable visors.2017, Ken Mondschein, Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War, McFarland, →ISBN. From the entry greathelm
  • Across the room, some meathead wearing a supertight tank top and an upside-down visor screams about a tapped keg, the ultimate in prep-school party fouls.2009, Siobhan Vivian, Little Friendly Advice. From the entry supertight
  • The driver's window in each cab is fitted with an electrically-operated windscreen wiper, a sun visor, and a defroster, heated from a nozzle.1958 July, “German Railbuses for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 501. From the entry windscreen wiper
  • With its hinged 'buffe' (visor) lowered, the head and neck was completely enclosed; the excellent protection it afforded allows Cleopatra to describe Antony figuratively as 'burgonet of men' (1.5.24).2004, Charles Edelman, Shakespeare's Military Language: A Dictionary, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry buffe
  • The workmanship is sound, but not fine—portions of a visor and a mesail and a chin-piece of the period of Elizabeth have been added to it.1992, Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, page 42. From the entry mesail
  • The big helmets that might have given many knights claustrophobia were gradually abolished for “hounskulls”, close-fitting steel caps with pointed visors that could be flicked open for easier breathing.1971, Helmut Nickel, Arms and Armour Through the Ages. From the entry hounskull

Meaning of visor

  1. noun A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
  2. noun A mask for the face.
  3. noun The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

Full definition of visor

Questions about visor in a sentence

How do you use visor in a sentence?
Visor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “My visor was covered in mud, and I had used up all the tear-offs.”
What is a short sentence with visor?
“Nice hair.” ¶ I pull down the visor and try not to laugh.”
What does visor mean?
Visor means a part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

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