How to Use hard hat in a Sentence

hard hat

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  • Bullard’s first hard hat was called the Hard Boiled hat.
    — Murray Carpenter, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Plus, who doesn't look good in a hard hat and business clothes?
    — Brosnan C. Hoban, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • One of the iconic symbols of the school is a miners’ hard hat.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2019
  • One of the hard hat heroes pointed to a tall young dude a few feet away.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Senior Herb Jones won the hard hat for the most blue collar points.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Edge has gone in there with his hard hat — and his hard head — and so far, the results are good.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • His steel-toe boots go into the trunk, as do his mask, face shield and hard hat.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • Poor Joe says some women don’t want to date a guy who wears a hard hat to work.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Across the hall were a hard hat, headphones, and a power saw mighty enough to cut through rock.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Then the violinist, clad in a hard hat, stood in front of where the stage would be.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The man shooting the video wears a face mask, rimless glasses, and a white hard hat.
    — Gian Volpicelli, Wired, 6 June 2021
  • The hard hat and orange jacket were found at the scene, police said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Dean, in a brown hard hat, blue jeans and yellow jacket, looked on.
    — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2021
  • That seems to be the Beavers’ identity this season, all hard hat and lunch pail.
    — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Conor Daly’s ready to throw on some work boots, hard hat, safety glasses and get to work.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The boss handed him a hard hat and some shoes (the cost of which was deducted from his pay) and told him to get to work.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • On top of a crane near the top of the church building, Isaac Aguirre, the pastor, stood in a reflective vest and white hard hat.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Crews are constantly working on the site, which is a hard hat zone.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
  • A half-dozen figures in one-piece work suits and hard hats appear on deck, working the ropes.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Regardless, that pink hard hat and a free tool kit are going home with her and all the girls in the program.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 18 June 2021
  • At first, wearing a hard hat was a choice, not a requirement.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The video showed the men standing in the tunnel and wearing hard hats, with a bright light shining behind them.
    — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But the big programmes that let ministers dress up in a hard hat to announce are not.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • White shards fly through the air, pinging off the hard hats of a pair of volunteers who wrestle a rain-heavy mattress to the top of the pile.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
  • There aren’t any safety vests or hard hats throwing off his vibes.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023
  • At the memorial site, twenty-nine black hard hats hung on red crosses that emerged from the snow.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
  • Next unusually warm day in March, bring your hard hat and come on over.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
  • The 52-year-old entered the Palace of Versailles, Paris, on a golf cart, dressed in breeches, a dressage tailcoat, and hard hat.
    — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The story behind the OSU hard hat — a reward for hard work and sacrifice.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 4 June 2021
  • Instead of hard hats and hammers, everyone grabbed baseball caps and catcher's mitts to kick off the day.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2024

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