BONNET in a Sentence

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145 example sentences for BONNET, such as:

1. But not to change to a mourning bonnet.
2. The bullets ricocheted off the bonnet and windscreen.
3. If you really felt that way, you'd stamp on the bonnet.
4. I looked under the bonnet and clouds of smoke poured out.
5. Mrs. Merriwether alighted, her bonnet ribbons shaking like sails in a storm.

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 Meanings and Examples of BONNET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bonnet
 n.  headdress for men and boys; cap; a covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  And the black crepe veil on her bonnet had to reach to her knees, and only after three years of widowhood could it be shortened to shoulder length.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Besides, he would tug at the ribbons of her bonnet and, no doubt, rumple her dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Mrs. Merriwether alighted, her bonnet ribbons shaking like sails in a storm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  He liked bright colors and Scarlett's funeral dresses and the crepe veil that hung from her bonnet to her heels both amused him and offended him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Starved for the sight, much less the touch, of new clothes, it seemed the loveliest bonnet she had ever seen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  But not to change to a mourning bonnet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  If she refused, he might jerk the bonnet right off her head and give it to some other girl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  "Well, if you think I'll marry you to pay for the bonnet, I won't," she said daringly and gave her head a saucy flirt that set the plume to bobbing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  If you really felt that way, you'd stamp on the bonnet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  "Don't you dare touch this bonnet," she said, clutching it by the bow and retreating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  But she was not listening, for she was regarding herself pleasedly in the mirror again, thinking she would wear the bonnet to the hospital this very afternoon and take flowers to the convalescent officers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  There were tears on her cheeks, her bonnet was hanging on her neck by the ribbons and her hoops swaying violently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  And she had on a black dress and black bonnet and no paint and really looked decent but for that red hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  "I'm just sick and tired of that old hospital," she said, settling her billowing skirts and tying her bonnet bow more firmly under her chin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  I looked under the bonnet and clouds of smoke poured out.
2  When I eventually stopped and lifted the bonnet, the noise seemed to be coming from the alternator.
3  The bullets ricocheted off the bonnet and windscreen.
4  I told him in a new series of whispers, that he might as well buy me a gold gown and a silver bonnet at once.
5  Profits in the mass market are slender at best, the result of too much duplicated investment under the bonnet on technologies that are indistinguishable to car buyers.