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Example sentences for "hoods"

Lexicographically close words:
hoodlike; hoodlum; hoodlums; hoodoo; hoodooed; hoodwink; hoodwinked; hoodwinking; hoof; hoofbeats
  1. They surveyed him doubtfully, and then turned to Hadifah and his men, tall, imperturbable looking, their dark faces visible through their open hoods of steel.

  2. Well, right now the Hoods are trying to force every truck farmer in this district to join the County Cooperative.

  3. In another moment, the members of the Black Hoods unquestionably would break the door lock and find Charley Phelps.

  4. Two horsemen, black hoods covering their faces, rode at a hard gallop toward the storage barn.

  5. The Hoods never would be so stupid as to sell melons which could be traced.

  6. The Hoods threatened me, and to get even, planted evidence that made it look as if I had set the fire.

  7. I counted them and figured the Hoods were having one of their get-togethers.

  8. Breathlessly, she revealed that the Hoods held monthly meetings at the Hubell Tower, and that both Hank Holloway and Charley Phelps were members of the order.

  9. I'm inclined to believe the Black Hoods may have had something to do with it.

  10. And you believe the Hoods may be connected with the Cooperative?

  11. Fearing to attempt the hazardous leap, Penny ran down the iron stairway, shouting that the Master of the Hoods had escaped.

  12. She did not see Seth McGuire, the sheriff had nothing to disclose concerning Clem Davis' disappearance, and the Black Hoods seemed to have become an extinct organization.

  13. The Hoods will have to work fast if they destroy the Davis melons," Penny rejoined.

  14. I didn't know much about the Hoods when I joined 'em.

  15. The Hoods hold their meetings and then ride forth to accomplish their underhanded work!

  16. Unfortunately, it will be many days before the Hoods are supposed to hold their meeting at the Tower.

  17. We'll expose the Hoods and put an end to the organization!

  18. But the three other hoods closed in upon Black Hood.

  19. As the first of the hoods showed his face at the foot of the stairs, Black Hood gave the guard a shove that sent the man flopping down the stairs to bowl over two of the foremost members of the mob.

  20. Murphy and the other hoods looked backwards.

  21. Their hoods were pulled down as before a storm, their mantles drawn up above their chins; and all but two of them appeared to be trying to shrink into their gilded saddles.

  22. Only Eric of Norway stamped with uneasiness; and the overhanging brows of Thorkel the Tall were as lowering hoods above his eyes.

  23. As the Barefooted monks and other orders have shamelessly done in placing the hoods of their orders upon dead bodies.

  24. Instead of Christ they worship their own hoods and their own filth.

  25. Krishna then got upon the hoods one thousand in number, one hundred being the chief, and danced on them putting down the hood that tried to raise itself.

  26. The thousand hoods represent the thousand Maha yugas of every Kalpa.

  27. Kaliya with its one hundred hoods is the lifetime of one birth, represented by one hundred years.

  28. The precious stones on their hoods dispel all darkness in Patala.

  29. The suspicious hoods disappeared, however, at the corner of Ship-street, and Drost Peter rode over the bridge to the Middle-dam.

  30. But he heard them hiss, and he turned to see four cobras come toward him, with the front third of their bodies raised from the floor and their hoods extended.

  31. Two great gray cobras, male and female, swayed behind them less than a yard away, balanced for the strike, hoods raised.

  32. On the following morning some twelve thousand White Hoods marched to the Hôtel de St. Pol, and the leaders, on being admitted, found all the great lords assembled.

  33. In the meantime many of the White Hoods had followed their leaders, Simon and Guy entering with them.

  34. In time he took upon himself much of the education of Katarina's children, and throughout a long life Guy never ceased to bless the day when he and Dame Margaret were in danger of their lives at the hands of the White Hoods of Paris.

  35. There was a patrol of the White Hoods in sight, but it was far down the street, and after going a few yards past the house he crossed the road, and as he returned he pushed at the door.

  36. Four armed men, whose white hoods showed that they were one of the butchers' patrols, were standing round a slight figure.

  37. Here they sat down and breakfasted, then they returned to the market where the White Hoods were mustering.

  38. Guy was now again running his hardest, in order to get across far enough ahead of his pursuers to enable him to hide himself, when a strong patrol of some twenty White Hoods issued from the gate at the other side of the bridge.

  39. As soon as this is made and the Duke of Aquitaine has gained power to act you may be sure that the leaders of the White Hoods will be punished, and there will be no more closing of gates and examination of those who pass in and out.

  40. The flames danced on the wide circle of bearded faces, on the tangled fleeces of the postheens, on the gold braid of the forage caps, on the sombre hoods of beshliks.

  41. I will now speak of the furnace hoods and of the roofs.

  42. Since one weight counter-balances another, the rafters on the opposite hoods cannot fall.

  43. Twins had cradles with hoods at both ends.

  44. They were like the Nithesdale hoods of Hogarth's prints, but smaller.

  45. The glasses and the fine linen and the hoods and the vails.

  46. Similar hoods are shown in Romain de Rooge's prints of the landing of King William, on the women in the coronation procession.

  47. Both have strings of beads around the neck and no other jewels; both wear loosely tied and rather shapeless flat hoods concealing the hair, Madam Shrimpton's having an embroidered edge about two inches wide.

  48. The girls also had fascinating little hoods of shirred silk, Marjorie's being rose color, and Kitty's blue.

  49. You won't have any queer things, and I doubt if you'll need goggles; but you and Kitty shall have pretty motor coats, and pretty hoods and veils.

  50. Upon their safe landing in Nevada, the Columbuses of this first flight to Mars put in long-distance calls to all the other important hoods in the country.

  51. Thus ladies lounged into the balls in their riding-hoods or morning dresses, gentlemen in boots, with their pipes in their mouths.

  52. Besides being carefully clothed in wool from head to foot, the men wore hoods of buckskin and sealskin trousers, through which it is impossible for the wind to penetrate.

  53. The snowy hoods of the two mountains, Catherine and Elizabeth, rose up above the clouds.

  54. The men in the boats had, however, spied the approaching bad weather, and orders were given to get up spray hoods in the bows of the craft.

  55. Between the ships and the shore constantly darted light gasoline boats, or swift launches with big gray hoods over them.

  56. The day was one of the finest, the atmosphere deliciously enjoyable, neither too warm nor too cold; other carriages were open, yet the hoods of theirs met overhead, and the glasses were up.

  57. It was a bright moonlight night and about twenty members were present, all attired in their red robes and black hoods with yellow tassels.

  58. The excitement lasted nearly five minutes, and when it was over the boys stood there with their hoods and robes off, gazing at each other nervously.

  59. The girls drew their hoods closer over their faces as they hurried across the churchyard, out through the iron gate into the road.

  60. If Kitty wears her golf-cape and you wear mine, and pull the hoods away over your faces, nobody will notice.

  61. These bodies in the "covered-eyed" species are protected by hoods of gelatinous tissue; in the naked-eyed species the hoods are absent.

  62. Do you procure her night-gown, and with your hoods tied over your face, meet him in her stead.

  63. Get my hoods and tippet, and bid the footman call a chair.

  64. They wore woollen cloths and square caps, and the women had hoods like those of a friar.

  65. The women wear hoods on their heads, almost of the same shape as those worn by friars.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.