How to Use mullah in a Sentence

mullah

noun

• Once the mullah fell to the ground, another person shot him four times in the chest.
  — WSJ, 26 Sep. 2021
• The mullahs still rule in Iran, and Syria lies in tatters.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• To really save some mullah, do what the kids do these days, and have a pregame at home.
  — Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2018
• The mullah crouched beside him and read a prayer, asking for God to show mercy on his soul.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The mullah, his feet in shiny leather loafers, hopped out of the vehicle, climbed onto the cargo bed and affixed the flag to the antenna.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Obama gave millions of dollars in cash on pallets to Iran to sweeten the mullahs.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• The mullahs have thrown billions of dollars at the development of nuclear weapons in good times and bad.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• The mullahs in Tehran will be overjoyed and see signs of another U.S. President’s weakness.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• The soldiers, who lived nearby and knew the villagers well, separated the mullahs and teachers and those with education from the group.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• Iran’s politicians, military men and mullahs then came together to take down the premier.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Some children attend a madrasa, or Islamic school, run by a mullah at a tiny mosque in a nearby settlement.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• Hopefully, under those circumstances, the idea of buying peace at home by making peace abroad would appeal to the mullahs.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• And if war comes, the mullahs are ready to trap America in another Middle Eastern quagmire.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• Ambassadors and chief justices can also donate with ease, as may rabbis (though not swamis or mullahs).
  — Mark Vanhoenacker, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
• Qasem Soleimani while minimizing the actions of the courageous Iranians who oppose the mullahs.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Jan. 2020
• Over the past 18 months, thousands have taken to the street to demand reforms; the mullahs have responded with lethal force, torture, and public executions.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Millions of us fled the country in the aftermath in order to fight back and pursue the democratic future that so many people envisioned before the mullahs took over.
  — Nasser Sharif, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
• But temptations of power proved too much as the mullahs and their praetorian guard indulged their taste for luxury.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Tehran’s mullahs cannot survive a sustained oil price of $60 a barrel with practically no export revenue.
  — Nawaf E. Obaid, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• But giving similar treatment to a Trump administration that has gone out of its way to court the Sunni Arabs while trash talking the mullahs should be inexcusable.
  — chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
• When news of the concert broke, Afghanistan's mullahs denounced the performance and the authorities canceled it at its original location.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2017
• Iran’s second national uprising against the mullahs in nine years is fueled this time by rural Iranians, once the regime’s strongest pillar.
  — Andrew Malcolm, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• But, in the past year, the Trump Administration and the mullahs in Tehran have goaded each other into a series of pointless escalations, treating war as a game of chicken that is now hurtling out of control.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
• Iran has no interest in easing Yemeni suffering; the mullahs don’t even care for ordinary Iranians.
  — Mike Pompeo, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• Stopping Iran's mullahs from eventually following in the footsteps of North Korea and acquiring nuclear weapons will be hard enough as is.
  — John Hannah, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• On that score, recent alarming reports have circulated that the Iraqi parliament is due to vote on a provision to appoint mullahs as judges, with the prospect that sharia law will override secular laws that are in conflict with it.
  — Edward Clancy, National Review, 6 Aug. 2019
• This military pressure, along with economic pressure from a new round of sanctions, will weaken Iran’s hold on its proxies abroad and create political problems for the mullahs at home.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 14 May 2018
• As of this month, the country’s electric utility company, which hasn’t paid its foreign power suppliers or collected much revenue at home since Aug. 15, is headed by a mullah.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• Yet the Europeans undermine their own safety by trying to circumvent U.S. sanctions and continue doing business with the mullahs.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2019
• Instead, Iran’s ruling mullahs wasted billions of dollars in sanctions relief on the military and meddling in regional disputes.
  — Fred Fleitz, National Review, 8 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024