How to Use fedora in a Sentence

fedora

noun
  • The men were all in suits and ties, and many wore fedoras.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Not for the whole person, not for all of Coach Bear Bryant, just the fedora.
    Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The man in the fedora was Jack Ruby, the febrile strip-club owner and cop buff.
    Edward Kosner, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • His look was finished off with a pair of cream work boots and a fedora.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Lopez, 53, dressed in all white, sporting a crop top with high-waist pants and a fedora.
    Michael Gioia, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022
  • His mom, in sparkly green sneakers and a fedora, sat in the first row.
    Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The woman behind the fedora may have also had a hand in the star on the team’s helmets.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2021
  • My husband wore a suit and tie, a white shirt with cuff links, a black felt fedora, and a gray wool coat.
    Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Tom Landry was a coach; kids didn’t grow up hoping to wear a fedora.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The back seats, as usual for this type car, will fit a fedora and a set of guitar strings and that’s about it.
    Josh Max, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • At the end, the actor puts on the Borsalino fedora, turns around, and walks off stage.
    Jacquinn Sinclair, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Wayans looked the part dressed in a plaid coat, gray suit and a classic feathered-fedora hat.
    Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The man in the sideline fedora would never coach again.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Lopez, 53, looked on, and already had her hat game set with a white fedora.
    Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 26 Aug. 2022
  • As the movies rolled on, the fedora gained its own character arc.
    Simon Ingram, Town & Country, 30 June 2023
  • Veneziale was in a greenroom, wearing a suit and a fedora.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Two days later, James wore a black suit with a gray fedora.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Caswell, over 6-feet-tall and close to 300 pounds, was fond of a red velvet fedora with a leopard-print band.
    oregonlive.com, 6 July 2019
  • Richard Widmark, in his fedora, making his way through the crowd of straphangers, on the hunt.
    Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The Frog wears a funky purple suit with a matching fedora.
    Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Today, the fedora is probably one of the most worn and used words to describe a brimmed hat.
    Maverick Li, Men's Health, 14 July 2023
  • This is on 76 styles, from caps to cowboy hats to straw fedoras to Leia double pom knit hats.
    Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Later in the night, Robbie beamed in a hot pink suit, pink tie and polka-dot fedora.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Don your fedoras and your flappers and get ready to Charleston.
    Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The subjects of his paintings swing rackets in tennis whites, slow dance in full skirts, play the horn in fedoras.
    Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • In photos, the Princess of Wales looked ready for autumn, wearing a beige trench coat and a dark brown fedora with feathers.
    Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In order to do that, Nehemiah puts on a curly black wig, a mustache and a fedora.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
  • It is helped by being suede and not twill or pinstriped, but is hurt by being a fedora.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Under the relentless sun, the state park was a sea of beach chairs and hats — bucket hats, slouch hats, straw fedoras, stingy brims.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • We've been saved from B-list celebrities And when Derby Day came, there were no fedoras or pork pie hats for men.
    Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2020

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