How to Use yarmulke in a Sentence

yarmulke

noun
Definition of yarmulkenext
  • If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
    — Seth Mandel, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Many of those present had never seen a yarmulke and prayer shawl.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The man was wearing a yarmulke in video of the incident.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Advertisement Michalek turned back to the man in the yarmulke.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • This chair held a stack of trash bags and was pushed by an elderly man in a yarmulke.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The bald guy brings me a prayer book and a white yarmulke with golden embroidery.
    — Etgar Keret, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • There is a girl wearing a headscarf and a boy wearing a yarmulke.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Trump, wearing a yarmulke, placed his right hand on the wall and swayed slightly back and forth with his eyes closed.
    — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 22 May 2017
  • Nissel, who wore a yarmulke, was left dazed and bloodied by the attack.
    — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • On Wednesday, a couple of the activists on the lawn wore yarmulkes, as did many of the counter-protesters.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Turell now plays with a yarmulke atop his floppy blond mane, but didn’t always.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Borgen, who is Jewish, was wearing a yarmulke and walking to a pro-Israel protest at the time.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 10 June 2021
  • My dad keeps a few yarmulkes in a drawer in the hallway console, between misplaced golf tees and a set of spare keys.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Antisemitic slurs were hurled at an adult there wearing a yarmulke.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2023
  • By the Great Synagogue, a bald guy with a big black yarmulke stops us and mumbles something about a mitzvah.
    — Etgar Keret, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Jones was seated across a mountain of toilet paper from Park, her mask pulled up on her head like a yarmulke.
    — Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
  • The Jewish tradition of the kippah or yarmulke acknowledges this truth in its own way.
    — Ellen Wayland-Smith, Longreads, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Vallerius was still wearing his long reddish-brown beard on Tuesday, along with a yarmulke atop his head.
    — Jay Weaver, miamiherald, 12 June 2018
  • Orthodox Jews in the military were allowed to retain their yarmulkes and beards.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • One hostage was released about 5 p.m, and authorities were seen bringing a man wearing a black yarmulke out of the building.
    — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Borgen, who was wearing a yarmulke, was knocked to the ground, punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and hit with crutches during the assault, which was caught on bystander video.
    — NBC News, 25 May 2021
  • Put on your yarmulke, because Haim are celebrating Hanukkah — in the best way imaginable.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Perhaps Turx’s beard, yarmulke and Hassidic curls suggested an ally in Trump’s mind.
    — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Here, young men wearing yarmulkes spend their days studying both the Torah and military strategy.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In addition to twice finding a cross on his desk, the weatherman once found a Jewish head-covering known as a yarmulke on his desk.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Teenager Ari, traumatized in childhood and tired of living a lie, cuts off his payos (sidelocks) but keeps wearing a yarmulke.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The instructor, who didn’t want his name published, was standing on the sidewalk waiting for the test to end when Lashley, 29, approached him and pointed at his yarmulke.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The man was leaving religious services and also wearing a yarmulke.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
  • Some people wore hijabs, while others were clad in clerical collars or a yarmulke.
    — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Mahmoud Musa was among a group of men who brutally beat Joseph Borgen after spotting him in public wearing a yarmulke in 2021.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023

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