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How to use wimple in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wimple? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
If you drop in here, you honestly never know if you'll find me wearing a wimple or a bikini.
When did I join the Amish community, sitting with my wimple on, shaking my head sadly at the waste and dissipation of the modern world?
Cora refused to wear such a confining and uncomfortable article of clothing as the wimple, which wrapped around a woman's head and neck.
Where the man has a hood the woman has, as a rule, a head-veil and wimple or gorget.
There's something about his knit cap with the hood covering it that looks as holy as a wimple.
So it would appear that my chances of seeing a bearded man walking around in leather chaps and a latex nun's wimple are doubly-remote.
Maria runs off to the nunnery, blowing her nose on her wimple.
The wimple, usually made of fine white linen or silk, framed the face and covered the neck and sometimes part of the bosom.
They fit tightly around the shoulders and your head pokes up through a hole to fit inside a sort of polythene wimple.
However, instead of the monk's hood the nuns wear a wimple with their veil.
Saying that, I think I'd suit a wimple and I quite like navy.
It's hot and she looks a bit rosy under the wimple, but comfortable.
In the event, I was unable to attend as my wimple was at the cleaners.
Our pictures show her as a young nun in a wimple and in her mature years.
Wigging out in a wimple is just not possible The behaviour of fans at rock concerts has become as formulaic as ballet positions, though not as elegant.
Examples from Classical Literature
Upon the head they wore the wimple, the fillet, and about the throat the gorget.
The wimple or gorger is stated first to have appeared in Edward the First's reign.
She pulled her wimple closer to her face, took him by the arm, and drew him with her into the house.
She was tall and slender, but her features could not be seen for a wimple over her head.
On the early brasses the wimple under the chin marked the rank of the wearer.
People have only just started to recognise her now she's out of the habit, wimple and glasses.
Tied round the wimple they sometimes had a snood, or band of silk.
Her wimple is trimly plaited, and how fashionable is her cloak!
The wimple covered the neck, and was worn chiefly out of doors.
She stopped short, drew her wimple round her face, and was gone.
Here is a candle-end, which you must hide under your wimple.
Dainty sandals encased her feet, while a wimple of violet silk bordered in gold fringe, lay becomingly over her head and shoulders.
Owners AmaZing Venues have created 52 luxury bedrooms by knocking the tiny, spartan nun cells into more wimple, sorry ample spaces with mod cons.
In addition 'Lizzie has a history of misunderstandings, but the latest one is bad enough to get her expelled from Our Lady of the Sacred Wimple College.
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