How to Use vizier in a Sentence

vizier

noun

• The third is the vizier’s son, rival to Aladdin’s affections for the princess.
  — National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• Fate follows a beggar king, his daughter, a dancer, and the caliph and grand vizier of Baghdad.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• The sultan accepts his gifts, but marries his daughter to the vizier’s son anyway.
  — National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• Eventually, Shahrazad, the vizier’s daughter, comes up with a plan.
  — Yasmine Al-Sayyad, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• This goes on until his vizier’s clever daughter Shahrazad offers to become his new bride.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
• Disney’s Aladdin faces off against the evil vizier Jafar, but in the original text, there are three villains.
  — National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• The emperor held it only two years, it being retaken by the grand vizier.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2012
• If a deal makes, Kenzari will play Jafar, the vizier to the sultan of the city who wants to use the genie for his own nefarious plan of taking power.
  — Borys Kit, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2017
• Some are telling their finance, operations and technology chiefs to make room for a grand vizier of the company vibe.
  — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• Can’t help himself - Free Beacon vizier Matthew Continetti writes that the president seems unable to help himself and now needs to help rather than hinder his own team.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 May 2017
• Designed by architect Imhoteb, the vizier of Djoser, the pyramid includes a 28-metre deep burial chamber for the pharaoh who some scholars believe ruled Egypt for almost two decades.
  — Hatem Maher, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2020
• Betrayed by his brothers, young Joseph suffers in slavery in Egypt before rising to become vizier, second in power only to Pharaoh.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2019
• The original game followed a prince whose father's army, influenced by a villainous vizier, sacks a Maharaja's city.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• The researchers found the tomb while excavating the dry moat that encircles the pyramid complex, not far from another burial site also discovered by the team—that of vizier, or high official, Merefnebef.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2022
• Civilian officials were often competent ex-slaves, sometimes including even the vizier of the Ottoman sultan himself.
  — Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
• Its creditors, led by the Imperial Ottoman Bank, forced the empire’s grand vizier to accept a humiliating solution.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024