(n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
(n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(2) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
(3) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
(4) Eighteen months ago they sent out a solitary photo of a group of kids in a car park , shrouded in smoke, their faces covered by white bandanas.
(5) They are pictured holding guns and dressed in desert camouflage and brown bandanas.
(6) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(7) He told her that someone was there for her and as she opened the front door she was confronted by a figure in a grey hoodie, a bandana over his face and his hood up.
(8) But some officials believe it is a woman with a pony tail while others believe that is being confused for a bandana.
(9) We wore bandanas, and I bought a couple of “weskits”, but resisted the urge to add a pair of fringed leather chaps.
(10) He saw the padded jackets, the riot clubs, the helmets and the bandanas concealing the policemen's faces, changed his mind and ran up the stairs to escape.
(11) Several had shaved heads, most had beards, some had bandanas, most seemed middle-aged, a handful were young.
(12) A group of police officers walked by, and each one lifted the bandana which concealed his identity, leaned down and spat on her face.
(13) There's burnt cars, bins on fire, and hundreds of guys with bandanas round their faces.
(14) Hell yeah, I’m angry!” Hamilton says, pushing down her bandana to speak to me.
(15) What kind of response is that?” said Ibrahim Morocco, a protester wearing a red bandana.
(16) The soundbites keep coming from rock gods in bandanas praising Lemmy for his "realness" and his "badness", but none of these multi-millionaires are still drinking down at The Rainbow.
(17) Out of respect to Sikhs as he visited their holiest site, he wore a dark blue bandana on his head.
(18) The uniform: a white shirt and a red bandana neck tie.
(19) They buzz you in, check your ID, have videos monitoring and even have a dress code – one man was asked to take off his hooded top and bandana.
(20) 'He had a scarf like a bandana and a scarf on his mouth and he was carrying a machine gun,' she said.
Handkerchief
Definition:
(n.) A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.
(n.) A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(2) Other possible causes of I-131 contaminated handkerchiefs are also discussed.
(3) Standing on stage next to Toback and festival boss Thierry Frémaux, Tyson, a bulky figure in a suit, looked a little uncomfortable, dabbing at his forehead with a handkerchief.
(4) A DNA profile was obtained from a stain of nasal mucus on this handkerchief and found to match a suspect later arrested for an attempted rape in the same locality.
(5) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
(6) Then I got two handkerchiefs with the Anarchy cover printed on them, but I gave one to Sid Vicious because he said, "Those bastards won't give me one!"
(7) He appears to move back and forth with a handkerchief in his hand, as if mopping the brow of, and comforting, the woman.
(8) Ronald Reagan's survival rested on a knife edge, and a handkerchief may well have saved George W Bush.
(9) Moscow was veiled in acrid smoke from such fires this morning as landmarks disappeared from view and commuters clutched handkerchiefs to their faces.
(10) He said anyone who develops flu-like symptoms should go home, protect their mouths when coughing, and throw away used handkerchiefs.
(11) In a multivariate model that adjusted for age range, profit status and liberal fecal policy, towel or handkerchief use (OR 5.5, 95% CI: 1.1, 30) was the only variable independently associated with case facilities.
(12) Brooker turned the screw on the Lib Dem leader right from the start of the live show, warning him: “This ain’t going to help your poll ratings.” When Clegg grabbed hold of the presenter’s pocket handkerchief, Brooker, who has a disability, told him: “You’ve done enough bad things to the disabled.” In making a pitch to get the sceptical interviewer to cast a vote at the upcoming general election, the party leader said not voting would be like going into Nando’s, not putting in an order and then complaining if you were unhappy with what you were served.
(13) His new colleagues thought the tall, well-built young man with a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket looked like a 'successful young brigadier'.
(14) Due to the smoke, you couldn't see two metres in front of you, but, covering their faces in wet handkerchiefs, they all went to work nonetheless.
(15) Factors associated with the risk of transmission of HBV infection included sharing of various personal and household articles, such as toothbrush, towel, handkerchief, clothing, razor, comb, bed and bedding.
(16) Tomás lived up to his reputation as a hero to Barcelona bullfight fans with his first bull – being awarded the gory trophy of the bull's ears as cheering fans waved white handkerchiefs to express admiration.
(17) He looks like he should be hawking handkerchiefs on the Home Shopping Network with Joy Mangano or Suzanne Pleshette.
(18) His outfit could almost be a store-bought costume: the bright red braces, the wide polka-dot tie, even the carefully folded red handkerchief protruding from the left breast pocket of his suit.
(19) To carry a clean handkerchief is becoming oldfashioned (Table 3).
(20) "Little shrines erected in some university library around the handkerchief in which Graham Greene blew his nose in 1957."