Example Sentences

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“Courage Hats” wants a little too forcefully to guide us into “deep” places where we will doff our hidey-hats to reveal our true selves — abstract concepts for the literalizing peewee set.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

Sports fans will doff their cap to a great performance by any competitor.

From Time • Mar. 3, 2010

In the Old Baptist Meeting House, midway down the Hill, they will doff mortar boards and one of the men will relinquish the truncheon of his authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reporting for work, each Institute employe will doff his street clothes in one room, put on laboratory clothes in another.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is noble in her will doff its nobility.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner