How to Use Druze in a Sentence

Druze

noun

• He is taken in by Omar (17) and his family, who are from the Druze faith.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• Iran’s image improved the most among Druze (nine points), followed by Christians (five points) and Sunnis (four points).
  — Maryclare Roche, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2024
• The body was identified as Tiran Fero, a member of the Druze Arabic-speaking minority and a senior in high school.
  — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• While some Druze chose to align themselves with either side of the civil conflict, most have avoided doing so, and many have refused to enlist in Assad’s army.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• About a million-strong, the global Druze community is largely spread across Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Beit Jann’s residents are Druze, an Arab religious minority found across the Levant whose roots here date back centuries.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
• Netanyahu criticized the settler violence, as well as unrelated protests by Druze Arabs in the Golan Heights that turned violent.
  — Isabel Debre, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
• The study found that Christians and Druze became genetically isolated following the arrival of Islam.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 29 Oct. 2023
• The city is mostly populated by Druze, members of a religious minority that largely avoided getting caught up in the civil war, and which the government treats gingerly.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Military service is mandatory for all Jewish citizens and for male Druze and Circassian citizens of Israel.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• The city has remained in government hands during the conflict and its Druze minority has long resisted being drawn into a civil war that pits mainly rebels drawn from Syria's majority Sunni population against Assad’s rule.
  — Fox News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The excesses of the opposition militias were also notable: in areas these militias conquered, few ethnic or religious minority families remain after thousands of Christians, Yezidis, Druze, and Kurds were displaced or killed.
  — Adham Sahloul, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2020
• The soccer field in the majority Druze town is a scene of shocking violence and the most devastating loss of life in the north since Hezbollah entered the war on behalf of the terrorist entity Hamas on Oct. 7.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024