Example Sentences

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The effect is to make the character — dressed in a long, off-white coat and turbanlike headband — quite uninteresting.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2015

The first I knew about any of this was waking up in the neurological intensive-care unit with a tight turbanlike pressure bandage around my head.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2010

She lies on the sofa with her turbanlike Sunday hat on, the afghan wrapped around her.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

His Effulgence himself was dressed in a scarlet robe and a scarlet, turbanlike head covering with scarlet fringes all around it.

From Despoilers of the Golden Empire by Freas, Kelly

In summer their heads were covered with blue handkerchiefs worn turbanlike as a protection from mosquitoes as well as from the rays of the sun.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)