noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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He reached for his black hood and put it on.
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Her bobbed hair was like a black hood .
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St Gertrude's, Sidcup Nuns, now: ladies in black hoods for teachers - surely that was surprising?
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A black hood covered his face.
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The black hood was pulled forward, well over the face.
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On the other side of the road, a taxi waited in the drizzle, its black hood glistening.
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With her veil pushed back and her black hood shading her face, she looked rather like a nun.
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The officer in charge has to provide a black hood as a blindfold, and a four-inch circular white target.
■ VERB
pull
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She pulled down the zip of her suit, pulled back the hood and simply sat down on the track.
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I pulled my hood down and my hair was dry.
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Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back.
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Athelstan pulled his hood over his head as he felt the heat of the sun on the back of his neck.
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She got out, pulling up the hood of her waterproof, and helped him to carry the crates up the drive.
put
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Two men put a hood over his head, bound his hands and threatened to shoot him.
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Two white hands rose and put back the hood .
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Now there were people putting hoods or sweaters or newspapers over their heads and running for the entrance.
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When we stopped, they came and put hoods , woollen knitted ones, over our heads.
wear
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He would dress the part, even though he wore a cloak or hood .
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In Dallas in October 1985, a black woman was abducted by four white men wearing hoods .
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All wore hoods over their heads.
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His name was derived from his habit of wearing a blue hood of coarsely woven cloth which masked his face.
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Two appeared on television wearing hoods , while the faces of the others were obscured.
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She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a latter-day Versailles/Tsar/Robin Hood etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A black hood covered Gilbert's face.
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A group of hoods mugged Tyler on Park Avenue.
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Dan got out to take a look under the hood .
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Sandvik put his hood up against the cold.
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Shanae opened up the hood to check the oil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A wave came aboard when I was on watch with the hood of my oilskin unwisely left down.
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It was an open tourer having a folding hood and never looked large enough to take four adults.
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Not to mention an artificial grass lawn on the hood and a white picket fence on the front bumper.
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Scrub hens bounced off the windshield and iguanas skated across the plane of the hood .
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Sheet steel is used in applications ranging from pails to car hoods.
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The hood framed her expressive face, emphasising the grimace of determination before she lowered herself into the starting blocks.