Used in a Sentence

hooded

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hooded.

Editorial note

The suspect is described as a male, last seen wearing a black baseball cap, a dark gray hooded jacket, black jeans, and black sneakers.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Wearing a hood.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hooded gathered in one view.

adjective

Wearing a hood.

adjective

Covered with a hood.

adjective

Shaped like a hood.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hooded.

adjective

Wearing a hood.

adjective

Covered with a hood.

adjective

Shaped like a hood.

adjective

(of clothing) Fitted with a hood.

Example sentences

1

The suspect is described as a male, last seen wearing a black baseball cap, a dark gray hooded jacket, black jeans, and black sneakers.

2

They have interesting interactions with the hooded crows, tolerant of each other but still competitive over food.

3

In so far as you depart from this course, you become dampers, mutes, and hooded executioners.

4

He was last seen wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and black sneakers.

5

You have to trust that I'm not going to forward your todo list entries to any hooded figures.

6

My favourite instance of this is story of hooded teenagers outside stores intimidating passers by and general unwanted loitering in car parks etc.

7

Maybe there are hooded owls living in Word and PageMaker, so it is against the law to cut down the number of dialog boxes.

8

The idea that a co-founder of Y Combinator could be persuaded to part with seed funding simply by dint of the solicitor's wearing a hooded sweatshirt is, of course, preposterous.

9

We didn't see a lot of error propagation, but one example where we did: in Harry Potter, Prof Dumbledore is introduced as a mysterious hooded character.

10

No, I had considered Microprose, Kitfox, Hooded Horse.

11

At the time of the assault, he was wearing a black hat, glasses, a gray hooded sweatshirt, a dark gray jacket, and gray pants.

12

Farther north east over in Newfoundland is where the Vikings had a settlement and there are some clues up north; Labrador and Nunavut, in the form of stone carvings of hooded monks with Celtic cross symbols.

Quote examples

1

The fact that you don't have a hooded guy on your lawn burning a cross, screaming "lynch him!", doesn't mean it's not in front of you.

2

I can't really imagine there being a "Linux Police" kicking down the door of a hooded teenager and prying the Ubuntu DVD from his clammy hands.

3

Sometimes the system would build the entire Dumbledore entry under "mysterious hooded man"; sometimes it would make a new Dumbledore entity and like a reference back to the "mysterious hooded man" entity, and sometimes it wouldn't link them.

4

It's as tired as the "hooded man in dark room behind a green phosphor terminal" image that is thrown about any time there is a db leak or black hat scandal of some sort.

Proper noun examples

1

That we should bear ourselves Towards despair, and walk, 'ere the gallows, Hooded, our shackled soul wound round the neck in dreams, False-true, abandoned free of vice for Clarity's comforted Embrace of those acquainted, once met, never cared.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hooded in a sentence?

The suspect is described as a male, last seen wearing a black baseball cap, a dark gray hooded jacket, black jeans, and black sneakers.

What does hooded mean?

Wearing a hood.

What part of speech is hooded?

hooded is commonly used as adjective.