How to Use semiofficial in a Sentence

semiofficial

adjective

• As Fakhrizadeh’s sedan stopped, at least five gunmen emerged and raked the car with rapid fire, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency said.
  — Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2020
• As Fakhrizadeh's sedan stopped, at least five gunmen emerged and raked the car with rapid fire, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency said.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
• The semiofficial Fars news agency reported that he was killed in an attack in Absard, to the east of Tehran.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2020
• As Fakhrizadeh’s sedan stopped, at least five gunmen emerged and opened fire, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency said.
  — Fox News, 29 Nov. 2020
• The semiofficial Fars News released some of the videos purporting to be of the attacks on its Twitter account.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 7 Jan. 2020
• Tasnim, a semiofficial news agency close to Iran’s hard-liners, said limpet mines had been used in the attack.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
• The semiofficial naming of the area was at odds with the name of the post office and created confusion, Kelley said.
  — Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
• The semiofficial Fars news agency said a member of Iran's paramilitary Basij force was stabbed to death in Karaj.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2022
• Initial reports in semiofficial media outlets that 18 Iranians were killed in the strikes in Hama were later changed to omit the death toll.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
• Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the Guard, reported that a limpet mine planted on Saviz's hull caused the blast.
  — Fox News, 7 Apr. 2021
• Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the Guard, blamed the blast on explosives planted on Saviz's hull.
  — NBC News, 7 Apr. 2021
• Rasoulof’s case, according to the semiofficial Mehr News Agency, which did not cite a reason for Panahi’s arrest.
  — Babak Dehghanpisheh, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• Mousavi said, according to a translation from the semiofficial Mehr news agency.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• The semiofficial Tasnim news agency said the attack began with a car bomb that detonated in the path of Fakhrizadeh’s vehicle.
  — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2020
• Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency reported Tuesday that the country has no plan to increase the range of its missiles, which can reach 1,240 miles.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• Among the dead was a member of a council that advises Iran’s supreme leader, according to the semiofficial Tasnim news agency.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
• Russia’s proxies—a mix of puppets and Kremlin thugs—proceeded to dig in behind semiofficial armistice lines.
  — Thomas D. Grant, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2022
• Also, a semiofficial Iranian foundation had posted a bounty of over $3 million for the killing of the author.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
• Mr. Abdollahian told the semiofficial news agency Fars that the execution of Sheikh Nimr was the latest such blunder.
  — Thomas Erdbrink and Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2016
• Details remained scarce in the report by semiofficial Tasnim news agency.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• The largest ship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported.
  — Fox News, 2 June 2021
• The first semiofficial gestural fan language was written by a Spanish man known simply as Fenella.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2018
• The semiofficial Tasnim News Agency quoted a judiciary spokesman as saying that the three had been charged in two separate cases.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• Demonstrators have abandoned cars along major highways and ransacked some 100 banks and stores in the country, according to Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
• The semiofficial Fars News Agency reported that demonstrators were dispersed by security forces in a number of cities, and that the leaders of some of the protests were arrested by police.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Later, the semiofficial Fars news agency said the man who slapped the governor had been upset that his wife received a coronavirus vaccination from a male nurse, as opposed to a female nurse.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2021
• Hard-liners and other fans of the show are blaming the government for pulling the second season off the air prematurely, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.
  — Isabel Debre, ajc, 4 Apr. 2021
• As is their pledge not to tolerate any semiofficial support or private donations.
  — Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 30 May 2017
• The government is seeking to submit the plan to parliament for approval by July, according to the semiofficial Yonhap News Agency.
  — Andrew Jeong, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• The semiofficial Fars News Agency reported that security forces dispersed demonstrators in a number of cities, and that police arrested the leaders of some of the protests.
  — Rachel Pannett, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024