How to Use mullah in a Sentence

mullah

noun

• None of that seemed to give the mullahs in power much of a boost.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• Once the mullah fell to the ground, another person shot him four times in the chest.
  — WSJ, 26 Sep. 2021
• The mullahs still rule in Iran, and Syria lies in tatters.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• To really save some mullah, do what the kids do these days, and have a pregame at home.
  — Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2018
• The ones then isolated will be the mullahs in Iran and their proxies.
  — TIME, 20 Feb. 2024
• The mullah crouched beside him and read a prayer, asking for God to show mercy on his soul.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• That’s a welcome message aimed at deterring the mullahs in Tehran and their agents.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• The mullah, his feet in shiny leather loafers, hopped out of the vehicle, climbed onto the cargo bed and affixed the flag to the antenna.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Obama gave millions of dollars in cash on pallets to Iran to sweeten the mullahs.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• The mullahs have thrown billions of dollars at the development of nuclear weapons in good times and bad.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• The mullahs in Tehran will be overjoyed and see signs of another U.S. President’s weakness.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• The soldiers, who lived nearby and knew the villagers well, separated the mullahs and teachers and those with education from the group.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• Iran’s politicians, military men and mullahs then came together to take down the premier.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Some children attend a madrasa, or Islamic school, run by a mullah at a tiny mosque in a nearby settlement.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• Hopefully, under those circumstances, the idea of buying peace at home by making peace abroad would appeal to the mullahs.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• And if war comes, the mullahs are ready to trap America in another Middle Eastern quagmire.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• Ambassadors and chief justices can also donate with ease, as may rabbis (though not swamis or mullahs).
  — Mark Vanhoenacker, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
• Qasem Soleimani while minimizing the actions of the courageous Iranians who oppose the mullahs.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Jan. 2020
• Over the past 18 months, thousands have taken to the street to demand reforms; the mullahs have responded with lethal force, torture, and public executions.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Millions of us fled the country in the aftermath in order to fight back and pursue the democratic future that so many people envisioned before the mullahs took over.
  — Nasser Sharif, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
• But temptations of power proved too much as the mullahs and their praetorian guard indulged their taste for luxury.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Tehran’s mullahs cannot survive a sustained oil price of $60 a barrel with practically no export revenue.
  — Nawaf E. Obaid, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• But giving similar treatment to a Trump administration that has gone out of its way to court the Sunni Arabs while trash talking the mullahs should be inexcusable.
  — chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
• When news of the concert broke, Afghanistan's mullahs denounced the performance and the authorities canceled it at its original location.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2017
• Iran and the world is at least spared that, but Khamenei and the other mullahs remain, oppressing women, crushing dissent and speech, fomenting terror across the Mideast, and most dangerous of all, still pursuing nukes.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
• Iran’s second national uprising against the mullahs in nine years is fueled this time by rural Iranians, once the regime’s strongest pillar.
  — Andrew Malcolm, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• But, in the past year, the Trump Administration and the mullahs in Tehran have goaded each other into a series of pointless escalations, treating war as a game of chicken that is now hurtling out of control.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
• Iran has no interest in easing Yemeni suffering; the mullahs don’t even care for ordinary Iranians.
  — Mike Pompeo, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• The mullahs come out of this arrangement, however, largely empty-handed.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Stopping Iran's mullahs from eventually following in the footsteps of North Korea and acquiring nuclear weapons will be hard enough as is.
  — John Hannah, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024