How to Use sheikh in a Sentence

sheikh

noun

• The sheikh’s trial is expected to start in the first half of next year.
  — Stephen Wade, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
• A lot of my friends were killed and injured also the sheikh in our mosque was killed.
  — Sami Zayara, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• The sheikh, he was told, was willing to invest $100 million in the deal.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2018
• In death, the sheikh had left him feeling as bereft as an orphan.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• The sheikh’s many roles in sports give him an oversize position in the races to host events.
  — Tariq Panja, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
• The sheik does not want the unwelcome news of his brother’s return to reach the rest of the village.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
• Take the Halloween mask that's supposed to be a grinning sheikh.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2017
• The rooms, too, are fit for a sheik, with bathrooms replete with marble tubs.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2022
• The sheikh’s lawyers requested that the children be returned to Dubai.
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• The couple married in 2004, with Princess Haya then becoming the sheikh’s sixth and youngest wife.
  — Julia Webster, Time, 3 July 2019
• To view David as a marginal Bedouin sheikh would be a mistake, Ben-Yosef thinks.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• Some Jews believe the biblical Joseph is buried in the tomb, while Muslims say a sheikh is buried there.
  — Tia Goldenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2022
• He was contacted to say a Qatari sheikh wanted to buy a racehorse.
  — Matt Majendie, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• Princess Haya, the most visible and glamorous of the sheikh’s reported six wives, has left him.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Some Bedouin sheikhs look to Prince Hamzah, the king’s half-brother, who was removed as heir apparent in 2004 to make way for the king’s son.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• Badly wounded, the sheikh left Palestine and stopped playing an active role in the war.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• The sheikh responded by outlawing the use of anabolic steroids on horses in the UAE.
  — Beth Harris, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• Born to a woman owned by the local sheikh, Zarifa was sold to Merchant Sulayman at the age of sixteen.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• Electronic billboards all showed the late sheikh's image in Dubai on Friday night as flags flew at half-staff.
  — Fox News, 14 May 2022
• Some of the challenges are enshrined in the law devised some 20 years ago after an inquiry that followed Sophie's, brush with the fake sheikh.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2020
• Lying on the sand under a tree, fiddling with his prayer beads, the aging village sheikh sprang to his feet, shouting at his son to chase the police.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• The implication was clear: Zawahiri was preparing Hamza, the sheikh’s son, to lead.
  — Ali Soufan, Newsweek, 19 June 2017
• Television revenue had far outstripped gate receipts as the major source of a club’s income, and the age of the oligarchs, hedge funds and sheikhs had begun.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• In 2004, a group of Iraqi sheikhs asked Mattis angrily when the Americans were planning on leaving the country.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• The Noble Sanctuary’s sheikh and the city’s governor were arrested, but that did little to tamp down the public fury.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
• The sheikh has still been active in Asian sports politics while awaiting the criminal trial.
  — Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• The sheikh denied wrongdoing and has not been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• The princess, who shares her husband’s love of horses and competed with the Jordanian equestrian team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, did not flee from the sheikh in the way the other women did.
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• One Facebook notice listed five members of one family who died in the fire; a tribal sheikh being treated for Covid-19, his wife and their three sons.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024