Sentence examples for sunbonnet from inspiring English sources

He told a conceited motion-picture producer, "A demitasse cup would fit over your head like a sunbonnet".… Telling of a Klondike pal who had frozen to death in the act of tying his shoelaces, he said, "We had to bury him in a drum".

There was a sunbonnet designed by Sally Victor.

Dressed from sunbonnet to apron-hem in calico, Ellie Allard, 8, of Minneapolis twirled in delight at the Oxbow restaurant in town before bedding down in her covered wagon at the Ingalls Homestead with her mother, aunt and cousins.

She wears spectacles, a pink cotton sunbonnet, a blue-flowered cotton frock, a brown apron streaked with absent-minded cooking.

Wendy McClure lets her "calico-sunbonnet freak flag fly" and writes about her road trip to the prairie of Laura Ingalls Wilder fame.

The shape of the petals is said to resemble the sunbonnets worn by American pioneer women; hence their common name.

But, even in this winter lull, the question on growers' minds is the same as it has been since Robert Frost pointed his ladder heavenward and Winslow Homer painted his young pickers in sunbonnets: How can you tell when an apple is ripe?

They were followed by a stock outlaw and a sheriff's posse, and behind them half the town's women and small children in pioneer regalia — long calico dresses, aprons and sunbonnets, big Nikes flashing incongruously with every step.

They committed an artistic crime: a literal wagon-train setting with a real covered wagon, a couple of uncomfortable live horses, bales of straw, milling extras, with old ladies in sunbonnets and old gents sucking pipes, a small boy whittling and … I can't go on.

Women in sunbonnets spread anchovies out to dry.

The 20th century, especially the Depression era of the 1930s, produced its own crop of appliqué designs like Sunbonnet Sue and Dresden Plate, often embellished with embroidery and rendered in the pastels popular during the period.