How to Use Shiraz in a Sentence

Shiraz

noun
  • While at Delheim my first favorite wine was a 2005 Shiraz.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Users had spotted the vans around Tehran, Iran’s capital, as well as in the cities of Kermanshah and Shiraz.
    Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 17 July 2023
  • Sure enough, people in Yazd thought that planning for the future was more important than those in Shiraz did, and people in Shiraz liked the idea of living in the moment more than those in Yazd did.
    Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2023
  • After attending elementary school in Shiraz, he was sent to a boarding school in Tehran run by Catholic priests.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Childs, Coudron and their graduate student Amin Shiraz Gilani began by making two assumptions to constrain the scope of the problem.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2023
  • The head of the country’s track and field federation, Hashem Siami, resigned this weekend after some participants in an all-women half-marathon in the city of Shiraz competed without the hijab.
    Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
  • According to one version, known as the Kilwa Chronicle, seven Persian princes fleeing persecution set sail from the trading hub of Shiraz.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This gain is mostly across still red wines including Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Grenache, with more than two-thirds of exporters in this price band either just starting or continuing to grow their exports in this category.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023
  • While at Delheim my first favorite wine was a 2005 Shiraz.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Users had spotted the vans around Tehran, Iran’s capital, as well as in the cities of Kermanshah and Shiraz.
    Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 17 July 2023
  • Sure enough, people in Yazd thought that planning for the future was more important than those in Shiraz did, and people in Shiraz liked the idea of living in the moment more than those in Yazd did.
    Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2023
  • After attending elementary school in Shiraz, he was sent to a boarding school in Tehran run by Catholic priests.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Childs, Coudron and their graduate student Amin Shiraz Gilani began by making two assumptions to constrain the scope of the problem.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2023
  • The head of the country’s track and field federation, Hashem Siami, resigned this weekend after some participants in an all-women half-marathon in the city of Shiraz competed without the hijab.
    Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
  • According to one version, known as the Kilwa Chronicle, seven Persian princes fleeing persecution set sail from the trading hub of Shiraz.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This gain is mostly across still red wines including Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Grenache, with more than two-thirds of exporters in this price band either just starting or continuing to grow their exports in this category.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023

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