How to Use minaret in a Sentence

minaret

noun

• Even the minaret is buried in the belfry of the church.
  — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Artillery punched a gaping hole in the minaret of the city’s main mosque.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• Beyond was the belfry of the cathedral, in which the minaret of the old mosque had been buried.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The precinct includes the Dome of the Rock, the four minarets, the compound’s historic gates and the mosque itself.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
• For 919 years, worshipers had been called to prayer from the minaret of the Great Mosque of Aleppo.
  — National Geographic, 16 Dec. 2019
• The minaret that leaned like Italy’s Tower of Pisa had stood for more than 840 years.
  — Balint Szlanko, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
• In his new apartment in Fort Worth, the call to prayer now comes from an app, not a minaret.
  — Giovanna Dell'orto and Mariam Fam, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
• In 2009, the Swiss voted to ban the construction of new minarets on mosques.
  — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• The minaret is a global symbol of Islam and the faith’s call to prayer five times a day.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
• The mosque and its leaning minaret have stood for eight centuries.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 21 June 2017
• To the north, from a blue minaret at the center of a tiny village, just a stone's throw from the base, comes the solemn call to evening prayer.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• The minarets will have green-tiled upturned eaves in Chinese style.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• What looks like a minaret rising tall among the palms is part of an outdoor stage.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023
• Also on the danger list is the minaret of Jam in Afghanistan and the old towns of Djenné in central Mali.
  — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• The Great Omari Mosque, Gaza's oldest mosque, renowned for its minaret, has been damaged.
  — WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• The tower, like that of Seville Cathedral, replaced a long-ago minaret.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2018
• Initial plans call for a building with minaret and a dome topped by a crescent moon.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2018
• There is the wreckage of the 12th century al-Nuri mosque and its huge, leaning minaret.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 29 June 2017
• The sun is setting and in the distance Jordanian flags can be seen rustling in the wind next to a mosque's minaret.
  — Elspeth Dehnert, Marie Claire, 29 Sep. 2016
• And its green-tiled minaret is visible throughout the city.
  — Lindsay Cohn, ELLE Decor, 6 Mar. 2018
• At dawn, the hopeful call to morning prayer rises from the village minaret.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Smoke billowed from within the crowded camp, with mosque minarets in the backdrop.
  — Nasser Nasser and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• Visitors looking for a minaret or trying to follow the call of the muezzin will search in vain.
  — Kirsten Grieshaber, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
• Another goal is the addition of a minaret to the building.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• And the building will not include minarets typical of other mosques in the area.
  — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• In the town of Bareilly, the minaret of a mosque fell on a group of people taking shelter in the courtyard, killing eight people.
  — Biswajeet Banerjee, USA TODAY, 14 May 2018
• Domes and minarets are lopped off mosques and replaced with curving Chinese roofs.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Their black flag had been flying from al-Hadba (The Hunchback) minaret since June 2014.
  — Maher Chmaytelli, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2017
• The mosque’s distinctive minaret, which once leaned like the Tower of Pisa, was reduced to a broken stump.
  — Lee Keath, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
• Much of the mosque and brickwork minaret was reduced to rubble, said a Reuters TV reporter who went to the site with the elite units that captured it.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 29 June 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024