How to Use mosque in a Sentence

mosque

noun

• As the sun set, the lights in the mosque turned on, lighting the Dome of the Rock.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• At times, the Dome of the Rock – a shrine – and Al-Aqsa – a mosque – have been confused as one and the same.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
• About a decade ago, the area’s only mosque was shot at and then set ablaze.
  — Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
• Both were from Pakistan and members of the same mosque.
  — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022
• At the mosque in Homs, the man’s sons—wide-eyed, barefoot—tried to mimic him.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• A lot of my friends were killed and injured also the sheikh in our mosque was killed.
  — Sami Zayara, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• The scene of a shooting near a mosque in the east of Oman's capital Muscat.
  — Charlene Gubash, NBC News, 16 July 2024
• Two were killed in an airstrike on a mosque in the town of Jenin, which has seen heavy gunbattles over the past year.
  — TIME, 22 Oct. 2023
• In the 2006 war, the mosques in her village publicly broadcast a message to flee.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• That mosque was over 300 years old, Yaroun’s mayor, Mr. Tafeh said.
  — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• Hospital records showed those killed at the mosque were all men.
  — Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
• Some days later, Hamid and a few of his sons were walking home from a tent used as a mosque.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The Great Omari Mosque, Gaza's oldest mosque, renowned for its minaret, has been damaged.
  — WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• Fars claimed the protests in Khash took place after Friday prayers at a Sunni mosque in the area.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• Car bombs from the last battle engraved starbursts into the cream walls of the main mosque.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• This week, the dozens of workers who were racing to prepare the mosque still had no idea what to expect.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• Rezwan was buried on May 6 after a service in the mosque outside Joplin.
  — Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
• In one corner, a small sign in English pointed to a tiny room: mosque.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• 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
• While her husband went to the mosque for Friday prayer, Zahra made couscous for lunch.
  — Sima Diab, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• After the prayers end, mourners carry Amro’s body out of the mosque.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• The mosque, once a Greek orthodox church and an icon of the Ottoman Empire, is more than 2,000 years old.
  — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• The genesis of the mosque began in 2012 — the year the Al Salam Foundation was founded.
  — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2022
• In other footage, singing in Hebrew can be heard from outside a mosque.
  — Hala Gorani, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Muslim students break their fast at home or the mosque at sunset.
  — Amaarah Decuir, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
• At his mosque, some of the congregants claimed that Putin had made up a reason to attack Ukraine.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• The mosque resides on the foundations of the Jewish temple mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
• When they’re forced to work together at their mosque, sparks fly and tension brews.
  — Meg Zukin, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• The war has torn through the area’s cultural and religious landmarks, including the oldest mosque in Gaza.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• Pictures show the shrine enclosed in a golden cage adorned with intricate Arabic inscriptions beside an old stone mosque crowned by a minaret that overlooked the village.
  — Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024