How do you use Hijab in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like headscarf or custom, plus the exact meaning.
Hijab meaning
- A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck.
- The practice, among Muslim women, of covering the body after the age of puberty in front of non-related (non-family) adult males.
Using Hijab
- The main meaning on this page is: A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck. | The practice, among Muslim women, of covering the body after the age of puberty in front of non-related (non-family) adult males.
- Useful related words include: headscarf, custom, usage, usance.
- In the example corpus, hijab often appears in combinations such as: the hijab, wearing hijab, her hijab.
Context around Hijab
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hijab
- In this selection, "hijab" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, black, world, wearing, ban, day and headscarf stand out and add context to how "hijab" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1983 the hijab became mandatory and a black hijab holding a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hijab" sits close to words such as als, antioch and aptly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hijab
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Karnataka has witnessed shrill campaigns around hijab and azan. (9 words)
I have asked officials to withdraw the hijab ban," he said. (11 words)
According to Iranian media, she was charged with disrespecting the Islamic hijab. (12 words)
A photo showed a young woman in a black hijab holding a glue gun like a weapon as she stood in front of a red-gray-and-black stylized image of someone holding a rifle. (35 words)
Continuing the attack on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over the hijab ban, former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Sunday said that the Chief Minister had gone back on his statement after the BJP attacked him. (35 words)
Days after Prime Minister Modi asked his party leaders to observe restraint and reach-out to Muslims, some students of a college in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad were denied entry for wearing Burqa and Hijab. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
One of the tweets referenced an incident in 2018 when she declined to wear a hijab on World Hijab Day.
In some cases, a woman wearing a hijab headscarf, or khimar, can be considered more identifiably “Muslim” than a man dressed in the conceptual definition of hijab.
She also called for more awareness for both Muslims and non-Muslims to understand the significance of hijab in Islam, saying that wearing hijab was mandatory for Muslim women.
According to Iranian media, she was charged with disrespecting the Islamic hijab.
A few days earlier, a court in Tehran province sentenced a woman to spend a month cleaning corpses in a morgue after she was caught driving without a hijab.
A photo showed a young woman in a black hijab holding a glue gun like a weapon as she stood in front of a red-gray-and-black stylized image of someone holding a rifle.
Badeed, who joined us in the kitchen, wore a black hijab with pearls and waved her hands as she spoke of leaving Somalia as a single mother in the 1990s.
Benzina has shared social media posts in the lead-up to the World Cup about wearing a hijab but has not spoken to the media about it since arriving in Australia.
Continuing the attack on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over the hijab ban, former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Sunday said that the Chief Minister had gone back on his statement after the BJP attacked him.
Days after Prime Minister Modi asked his party leaders to observe restraint and reach-out to Muslims, some students of a college in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad were denied entry for wearing Burqa and Hijab.
Defiance of the hijab law has grown since the protests erupted, in ways that have been difficult for authorities to roll back.
Following a brutal crackdown on the protests, many Iranian women continued to record and post anti-hijab clips and posts on social media.
For Khan, who only started wearing the hijab recently, suddenly being singled out for her religion was jarring.
France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat, has maintained the ban on the wearing of the hijab in women's football competitions.
I have asked officials to withdraw the hijab ban," he said.
In 1983, four years after the revolution, the Islamic authorities making the wearing of the hijab compulsory.
In 1983 the hijab became mandatory after the last shah was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, CNN reported.
Karnataka has witnessed shrill campaigns around hijab and azan.
Last February, Chetan was arrested for his alleged comments against a Karnataka High Court judge hearing the hijab case.
Last year lawmakers backed a ban on wearing the hijab and other “conspicuous religious symbols” in sports competitions.
Common combinations with hijab
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the hijab 51×
- wearing hijab 17×
- her hijab 14×
- hijab and 13×
- hijab in 12×
- of hijab 9×
- wear hijab 8×
- hijab was 6×
- in hijab 6×
- hijab is 6×