How to Use shah in a Sentence

shah

noun

• The protests that brought down the shah in 1979 unfolded over more than a year.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2022
• They were owned by the shah of Iran and the maharishis of India.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
• But protests supporting the shah, fanned in part by the CIA, led to Mosaddegh’s fall and the monarch’s return.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
• In the 1960s, Khomeini was one of the staunchest opponents of the ruling shah and the West.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 7 June 2017
• The president gave in to the hard-liners, admitting the shah to the United States.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• Arafat was the first foreign dignitary to visit Iran after the fall of the shah.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 16 May 2021
• The shah responded by laying a crushing siege on the city.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
• The shah, propped up by the Americans, had fled a month earlier.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
• Like the prince, the shah was an unelected monarch with a tarnished human rights record.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• The shah entered the atomic age standing on the shoulders of others.
  — Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• The mountaintop was once owned by a sister of the late shah of Iran, the Princess Shams Pahlavi, who had planned to build a lavish palace there.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• And in a popular video clip, soccer fans could be heard shouting the name of the shah, who was deposed in 1979.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
• The shah's remains are entombed at Cairo's Al-Rifai Mosque.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 29 May 2023
• In 1854 the shah wanted to fly American flags from his merchant ships.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
• Three years later, the shah signed a border agreement with Baghdad and shut off the weapons pipeline.
  — Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Construction on Bushehr, on the coast of the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, began under Iran's shah in the mid-1970s.
  — Fox News, 21 June 2021
• In his first weeks in power, Mr. Bani-Sadr worked to bring order to the shambles that had been left by the collapse of the shah’s government.
  — New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021
• The author is quick to charge that the United States enabled the shah’s dictatorship.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• In his first weeks in power, Banisadr worked to bring order to the shambles that had been left by the collapse of the shah's government.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
• For those with no hope of making shah, the vintage G-wagen market is heating up.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
• Pahlavi is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, who was overthrown in a 1979 revolution.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 22 Jan. 2020
• Yet what appears to be just a charming comic romance is in fact a sober indictment of life in shah-era Tehran.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• Barb gets a crash course in a foreign culture through her son’s captors, who have endured their share of loss and pain under the shah’s brutal regime.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• These tensions led the shah to recall Mr. Zahedi after just two years.
  — New York Times, 21 Nov. 2021
• By the 1979 Islamic Revolution, some of the women who helped overthrow the shah embraced the chador, a cloak that covers the body from head to toe, except for the face.
  — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
• Even the shah would blame the Soviets and British for having a hand in being ultimately pushed from power.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• But the uprising quickly chased the terminally ill shah from his throne.
  — Jim Hoagland, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
• Nor was the shah the one-dimensional despot depicted by Ghazvinian.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• The enduring hostility felt toward Israel is in no small part due to its close ties with the shah and Israel’s role in his sustained oppression of the Iranian people.
  — Aaron Pilkington, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2023
• The shah exiled himself in January, personally piloting a Boeing 707 out of the country.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024