Bonnet

//ˈbɒnɪt//

"Bonnet" in a Sentence (22 examples)

How do I open the bonnet?

She put on her bonnet.

This car has the boot under the bonnet. The engine is in the back.

I'm a bit worried because there is a constant banging noise coming from under the bonnet of my car.

She has a bee in her bonnet about arriving on time.

Tom fried himself an egg on his car bonnet.

I gradually became aware that my wife had dressed herself and was slipping on her mantle and her bonnet.

She cannot find her bonnet.

It's so hot, you could fry an egg on a car bonnet.

She was wearing a bonnet.

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In the hall, Scarlett saw a bonnet and put it on hurriedly, tying the ribbons under her chin. It was Melanie's black mourning bonnet and it did not fit Scarlett's head but she could not recall where she had put her own bonnet.

“Now,” said he, “put such a bonnet as that in the show window.” He did not fill his show-window up town with a lot of hats and bonnets to drive people away, and then sit on the back stairs and bawl because people went to Wanamaker's to trade.

A shock-head of red hair, which the hat and periwig of the Lowland costume had in a great measure concealed, was seen beneath the Highland bonnet, and verified the epithet of Roy, or Red, by which he was much better known in the low country than by any other, and is still, I suppose, best remembered.

Make sure that the power buffer's lamb's-wool bonnet is clean. Change or rinse the bonnet frequently to avoid scratching the finish. Use the bonnet as a mitten to buff in the crevices and other areas that the power buffer can't reach.

The car is burgundy red, wide and elegant, ten years old but still the boys are impressed and they run to touch it, pressing sticky handprints against the polished bodywork and trying to climb up onto the bonnet.

People were reluctant to slam a bonnet shut in those days. One just did not slam bonnets and doors.

By about 20 ms, there is contact between the bonnet leading edge and the pedestrian upper leg/pelvis on the struck side, the severity of which depends on the vehicle shape.

Stoll was still standing on the car bonnet with the catch of his large-calibre repeating rifle off.

And standing along to the Westward, this night we tryed with our mayne coarse and bonnet. On Saturday night we came to an anker, in three fathomes against Sewramo.

“All you have to do is to put a sovereign down on my table, and to find the pea, which I put under one of my thimbles. […] Why,” said the man, “I think you would do to be my bonnet.” “What would the wages be?” I demanded. “Why, to a first-rate bonnet, as I think you would prove, I could afford to give from forty to fifty shillings a week.”

Hee hath deſerued worthily of his Countrey, and his aſſent is not by ſuch eaſie degrees as thoſe, who hauing beene ſupple and courteous to the People, Bonnetted, without any further deed, to haue them at all into their eſtimation, and report:

“You’re a dutiful and affectionate little boy, you are, ain’t you?” said Mr. Weller, “to come a bonnetin’ your father in his old age?”

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