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
• A lot of my friends were killed and injured also the sheikh in our mosque was killed.
  — Sami Zayara, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The mosque resides on the foundations of the Jewish temple mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The family’s two boys — Shaheen, 12, and Mateen, 2 — were also killed, the mosque said.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• When visiting the mosque, make sure you are dressed in modest attire.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Bassiouni recalled a recent visit to a mosque in the Swiss canton of Valais at sunset, during the Maghrib prayer.
  — M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Her father had been killed when terrorists bombed a mosque.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 June 2023
• These included two ancient mosques and a space that is used as a health clinic.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2023
• And, in any case, nobody actually knows what will bring down a large mosque.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
• Zaibak said there was a prayer service before the event started and when people left the mosque, the food trucks were ready to start serving.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
• Over the next few weeks, Mac continues to visit the mosque, getting to know the men, women and children who worship there.
  — Malala Yousafzai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2023
• Years ago, there was an old Afghan man who used to come to our local mosque a little tipsy, or sometimes high.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The mosque is part of Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism where two biblical Temples once stood.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
• Jihad must be a common, normal term on your tongues, on your social media and in the mosques and elsewhere.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Mourners would usually gather around the body in a mosque to pray for the dead, followed by a large procession from the mosque to the gravesite for burial.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Not to mention the Silk Road with its magnificent mosques and mausoleums.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The boy's body was brought into the mosque in a small white coffin and prayed over before it was carried to a nearby cemetery for burial.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Nation's first mosque, also called a temple, was in Detroit, and is still referred today as Mosque No. 1.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2024
• None of the clerics at Jaranwala mosques could be reached to confirm the allegation about the loudspeakers.
  — Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024