Example Sentences

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As I stared up at the damage, a kerchiefed head poked through a doorway and looked quizzically at the stranger taking photos outside her home.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2018

A kerchiefed woman selling pastries frowns when asked what she thinks of the Turkish president.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2017

The new movie—a comedy starring Greta Gerwig as a kerchiefed co-ed—concerns the self-inventive ideas and self-destructive ideations of young people.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2012

Wounded men on homemade wooden crutches hobbled amid hordes of kerchiefed old women in knitted vests as children shouted and played.

From Time Magazine Archive

DeeDee and Nurse Kennedy bent their kerchiefed heads in a front pew.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath