What is "sweatband"

Usage examples of "sweatband".

The curtains were dyed dark blue with white caricatures of octopi wearing short coats and towels, twisted and tied around their heads as sweatbands.

The first man, larger of the two, was dressed in dark clothing and had on a stupid little Tyrolean hat with a silver-mounted fox brush in its sweatband.

She removed the sweatband from her forehead, mopped her brow, and retied the kerchief.

In the forward crescent were ten men carrying rifles, naked except for the rough green loincloths and green sweatbands around their foreheads that Vanderling had adopted as the closest practical thing to a uniform for his People's Army, under the circumstances.

Immediately behind the men herding the Meatanimals were five men in the green loincloths and sweatbands of the People's Army armed with rifles and prodding along a tied and gagged Killer who limped along on a bleeding right leg, his left arm hanging loosely in its bonds.

Before and behind that trio were squads of toughs with red sweatbands, some of those who'd been at the front and rear of the mob half an hour before.

Ruth can be a pain in the butt, but she's been my best friend since kindergarten, and you can't exactly dump your best friend since kindergarten just because sometimes she puts on sweatbands or starts crying when it rains.

I went through the two suitcases in the closet and poked at the linings, tore the papers off the shelves, looked in the sweatbands of the two hats I found, lifted the dresser and the desk away from the wall and searched behind them, tore up the rug, turned over the chairs and checked their cushions, examined the wallpaper, looked in the water tank of the toilet in the bathroom, and under the old-fashioned tub.