How to Use caliphate in a Sentence

caliphate

noun

• With the fall of Raqqa, this idea of a caliphate is at an end.
  — TIME.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• There was no choice but to try to escape the caliphate.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• So if the caliphate is gone, why is the U.S. still supporting the Kurds?
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• But as the caliphate crumbled, the stories of those who were part of it have been hard to verify.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
• There were dead bodies here and there, ISIS and civilians, soldiers and hostages of a caliphate.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
• Its forces have routed the would-be caliphate and regained control of the borders.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• Jihadists would set up a new caliphate on Egyptian turf.
  — The Economist, 6 July 2019
• The caliphate's destroyed, but there's thousands of fighters over there.
  — Nick Givas, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2019
• In summer 2017, the unit moved to the outskirts of Raqqah, capital of Islamic State’s caliphate, for the start of a siege.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• The regime’s problem with the West is the West’s very existence, which obstructs its path to a global caliphate.
  — Reza Pahlavi, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• Then, the terrorists can claim their caliphate: a bone-white ethnostate, armed to the teeth, that is by, for, and about the master race.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• Prison breaks have been a priority for Islamic State since the demise of the caliphate.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Hey Bin Laden, how's that global caliphate coming along?
  — Adam Weinstein, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2015
• That was the basis of Zafira's caliphate's misconceptions, but of course, there's more to it than that.
  — Dennis Tang, Teen Vogue, 28 May 2019
• Experts say that some women were indeed taken to the caliphate against their will.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2019
• Exultant armies and militias now occupy the ground once held by the caliphate.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2017
• Yet here again, the affiliate did not declare a caliphate.
  — Nabih Bulos, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia has called for a global caliphate.
  — Jon Emont, New York Times, 30 May 2017
• The caliphate, which ruled large parts of Europe, Asia and Africa between the 14th and 20th centuries, was known for keeping meticulous records.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2020
• In 2014, when the sect claimed the area as the headquarters of its caliphate, fighters slaughtered hundreds of people in the public abattoir.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020
• About a decade ago, the Islamic State declared the establishment of a caliphate over swaths of Syria and Iraq.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• But fortunes have changed, and the caliphate is now in deep financial trouble, according to a new study.
  — Rick Noack, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
• The Islamic State, with its own agenda to rule Syria as a caliphate, is being routed from its strongholds.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
• The victory was a turning point in the war against the caliphate, which had used Manbij as a base to plan attacks on Europe and supply fighters to Raqqa.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 June 2018
• Other attempts at reviving the institution of the caliphate elsewhere in the Muslim world flared in the 1920s.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• The caliphate was smashed, after President Trump changed the rules of engagement, and the president claimed credit.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
• The final stage is to establish a state and stitch the other regions together into a caliphate.
  — Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• As the battle for Raqqa ramps up, there appears to be no wider U.S. strategy for what to do after this caliphate capital falls.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 29 June 2017
• Radicalization led the couple to relocate with their four small children to Raqqa, Syria, in 2014 to join the fight for a caliphate.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• Coping with the aftermath of the caliphate has produced a separate danger.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024