How to Use muezzin in a Sentence

muezzin

noun

• By Samira Ahmed Babr woke at dawn to the muezzin’s call and the swoosh swoosh of street sweepers.
  — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
• Now, sitting up on her bedding, Mayya heard the muezzin’s voice.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The mournful poetry of the muezzin’s call, the comfort of a day measured in prayer.
  — Keija Parssinen, The New York Review of Books, 31 Jan. 2020
• Witnesses said the man who was stabbed is the mosque's muezzin, the person who calls Muslims to pray.
  — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
• Along with the muezzin’s call to prayer the unfamiliar sound of laughter can be heard.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• One recent chilly morning outside the mosque, the muezzin’s rising call filled the air.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• Muezzin calls to Muslim prayer echo off the surrounding hills.
  — Joshua Mitnick, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
• Visitors looking for a minaret or trying to follow the call of the muezzin will search in vain.
  — Kirsten Grieshaber, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
• Its muezzin was locked out and prevented from giving the daily calls to prayer.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• The mosque’s imam and muezzin were at the funeral, too, their heads swathed in bandages after being wounded in the attack.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The call to prayer begins with the voice of one muezzin, quickly joined by others to become a crescendo of calls that envelops us from the surrounding 36 mosques.
  — Nicola Chilton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2022
• As Lichtenberg walks off toward the hospital, the drone of the muezzin’s call to prayer crackles and hisses over a loudspeaker.
  — Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
• The monotone of the muezzin beckoning Muslims to worship five times a day is usually accompanied by a rush to close stores.
  — Donna Abu-Nasr, Bloomberg.com, 20 May 2020
• Without electricity or loudspeakers to broadcast the call to prayer, muezzins must rely on the strength of their own voices for the five-times-a-day ritual.
  — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2017
• At the moment of interment, as the Jewish prayer for the dead was being chanted, the muezzin from a nearby Palestinian village began the Muslim call to prayer for believers.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2020
• At mosques around the world, the muezzins who ordinarily call Muslims to prayer five times a day are enjoining the faithful to pray at home, for the first time since Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2020
• On a recent afternoon, around two dozen ex-students from Kayaphuri and other Rohingya-run schools recently shut down were playing marbles as a mosque loudspeaker broadcast the muezzin’s call to prayer.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2022
• The male quartet Barbara Furtuna sang music from Corsica of raw emotive power, filled with muezzin-like embellishment and expressive hand gestures.
  — Patrick Rucker, Washington Post, 9 July 2019

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