Example Sentences

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In a red-white-and-blue outfit, high-heeled boots and a pageant sash that reads “Cowboy Carter,” she’s a beauty queen and a white-hatted heroine claiming her nation — her country, in both senses.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024

Part One begins with Uncle Dick recounting how “the American Century” has been marked by a fight that he and a few other white-hatted cowboys have waged to keep the world safe for “freedom.”

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2015

To the old news that these trades can be gamed, he adds white-hatted heroes armed with algorithms and boundless curiosity.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2014

Only then it was the "Red Berets," France's paratroopers, and the white-hatted Foreign Legionnaires who were fighting the Viet Minh.

From Time Magazine Archive

My dear Datchet"—Mr. Dacre loved strong language as little as he loved a scene—"let us trust to time and, a little, to your white-hatted and gardenia-buttonholed friend's word of honor.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Castle, Egerton