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Example sentences for "turbaned"

Lexicographically close words:
tuque; turba; turbae; turban; turband; turbans; turbellarian; turbid; turbidity; turbidly
  1. Nor did the haughty bearing of the turbaned court belie the sign.

  2. Since the hour the turbaned rovers captured him he had not been assailed by a desire to see or seek his country and family.

  3. As may be fancied the knightly rider and gallant barb, followed by a dark-skinned, turbaned servant in Moorish costume, attracted attention.

  4. Notaras rejoined instantly: 'Rather than a Papal Legate in Constantinople, he would prefer a turbaned Turk.

  5. I cannot stay always here," returned Gnulemah, shaking her turbaned head, with its gleaming bandeau and rattling pendants.

  6. With the utmost enthusiasm he charged into the swollen tide of turbaned heads and flashing scimitars.

  7. Her troops crowded down from the north to ally themselves with the turbaned Turk, for the extermination of the French in Egypt.

  8. More than twelve thousand corpses of the turbaned Turks were floating in the bay of Aboukir, beneath whose crimsoned waves, but a few months before, almost an equal number of the French had sunk in death.

  9. Through all the ravines of Syria, the turbaned Musselmans, with gleaming sabres, were crowding down to swell the hostile ranks, already sufficiently numerous to render Napoleon's destruction apparently certain.

  10. Horace hardly dared to meet Beevor's eyes, which were fixed upon the green-turbaned Jinnee, as he stood apart in dreamy abstraction, smiling placidly to himself.

  11. As we dashed over the smooth road at a lively pace the glowing sunset painted scarlet the white turbaned head of the distant mountain, while it bronzed and gilded the clouds in the west.

  12. He was surrounded by a dozen most rascally-looking be-turbaned councillors, who, after we had been shown over the palace, were none of them above taking a shilling fee.

  13. Decatur had set his eye upon a red-turbaned figure that he knew to be the leader.

  14. Once they met a family of turbaned Moslems on horseback, sitting astride their overhanging mattresses, from which hung a jangling cluster of cooking-pots.

  15. The graveyard, however, was itself extremely old, although many of the turbaned and lettered tombstones of the faithful were in perfect preservation.

  16. Then he took the proffered hand, bending low over it till his turbaned forehead for a moment touched her fingers.

  17. He held his string-turbaned head on one side, and was without embarrassment as he sat between R.

  18. Just you wait till I get my hands on you, chile," she called with an angry toss of her white-turbaned head.

  19. Whereupon she bowed her gracefully turbaned head and leisurely left the room.

  20. But these turbaned Asiatics are not the only ones that throng this bridge.

  21. We are plunging into a labyrinth of dark and narrow and dirty streets, which are overhung with miserable houses, where from little shops turbaned figures peer out upon us, and women, closely veiled, glide swiftly by.

  22. So fierce was the onset that in many places the thorn hedge was cut or torn down, and through the gaps a wild horde of black and turbaned warriors struggled to force a way.

  23. Arabs in their long garments, turbaned Indians, and more or less naked negroes were mingled in one dense mass along the shore.

  24. No turbaned force could stand against them.

  25. Then suddenly a hundred doors seemed to open in the green wall opposite, and out of them poured almost noiselessly a flood of tall, white-robed, turbaned Arabs.

  26. Away in front, on the knoll whence they had started on their last fatal charge, a band of some twenty turbaned warriors had taken up their position, and in a roughly-formed square stood at bay, to defend their aged chief.

  27. Then there is a sudden sharp crackle of musketry; cries of startled fear and savage triumph; and by ones and twos and threes, turbaned figures pour out of the far side of the town, a scanty remnant of the Arab garrison.

  28. Saracens, the turbaned warriors surging in a wild mob into the great arch of the gateway.

  29. At the point of the wedge they could see the Norse sea-king on his red mare, calmly facing the charge of the turbaned spearmen; while beside him stood Floki the Crane, smiling in grim anticipation as he balanced his terrible halberd.

  30. Line after line, the Moslem horse came leaping along the gorge in close order, three hundred swift coursers, three hundred turbaned riders shrieking their war-cries.

  31. The tawny-skinned and turbaned attendant--more like what might have been seen at an Oriental tiger hunt--nevertheless added to the picturesqueness of the tableau.

  32. And still she struggled and still she felt his big form receding till his turbaned head was half-an-inch out of the door.

  33. His taller form sent a monstrous silhouette over the panelled walls, his turbaned head going right across the ceiling.

  34. He thought that the world had tumbled on his turbaned head as he fell.

  35. He stooped his turbaned head as he entered the low doorway, and approached the girl with the old fascinating look in his fiery eyes.


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