How to Use Muslim in a Sentence

Muslim

noun
Definition of Muslimnext
  • When the Muslim call to prayer sounds in Tuqu, the Jews in Tekoa hear it, too.
    — Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024
  • The Muslim maghrib prayer began soon after on the same blue tarp.
    — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Which is how Sadiq Khan—liberal, left-wing, Muslim—got sucked into the vortex.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Not only are people scared, Rehab says, but now, no one seems to want to hear from Muslim Americans.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • He'd been born in Sierra Leone, was a practicing Muslim and came to Michigan to attend college.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The Muslim Progressive Society helped raise enough money to send him to London to study.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • And the Jewish community has been impacted, but the Muslim and people of Arab origin as well.
    — ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The Muslim Student Assn. had set up a table to pass out fliers and brochures, while a large white board displaying the demands of a coalition of dozens of student groups behind the protest stood prominently next to the tents.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • In videos shared online, soldiers can be seen singing in Hebrew using a mosque's loudspeaker system, usually used for the Muslim call to prayer.
    — Hala Gorani, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Starmer has also taken some criticism from Muslim Labour supporters over being slow to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 2 July 2024
  • As Sawyer enters the assembly hall with hundreds of period panties in hand, Muslim, Christian and secular girls cheer for her.
    — Diane Farr, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • This exchange has been adapted by several rap artists – including Rick Ross, who does not identify as Muslim, and turns the phrase’s meaning on its head.
    — Jeta Luboteni, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Tensions had built up during the holy month, and in its final days, Israeli security forces confronted Muslim worshipers in a raid on al-Aqsa.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • According to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, the five pillars are the primary obligations a Muslim must fulfill in his or her lifetime.
    — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • She was born a Muslim and became an atheist — as anyone might do after living under a perversion of religion.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Modi’s new cabinet, for instance, does not contain a single Muslim.
    — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2024
  • However, Palestinians in Bethlehem — Christian and Muslim — are in the depths of unending grief.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Jewish, Muslim, pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students have been forced to confront violent threats.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Performing Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, which requires every Muslim who is physically and financially able to make the journey to the holy city of Mecca at least once in his or her life.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 21 June 2024
  • As the president of the Muslim Student Assn., he was made aware of at least seven accounts of verbal harassment toward Muslim students wearing hijabs since then.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Two high school students — one Jewish and the other Muslim — have emerged as leaders in trying to repair community relations.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The village’s population is mostly Maronites and Muslim Arabs.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Despite a packed house, speaker after speaker at Muslim House underscored the ongoing challenges that Muslims face in securing a seat at the table.
    — Sam Gill, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • It was backed mainly by conservative Shi’ite Muslim parties who form the largest coalition in mainly Muslim Iraq’s parliament.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024
  • Officials have also reported an increase in threats against Arab and Muslim Americans since Oct. 7.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The civilian administration that shared power with the military until the 2021 coup stood by, too, as the army targeted one ethnic group, the Muslim Rohingya, with what the United States considers genocide.
    — Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • These casual remarks and actions make Arab and Muslim San Diegans feel unsafe and vulnerable.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Take advantage of getting to know an American Muslim and make America and American freedom and democracy work for all.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
  • Arab Americans are repeatedly asked to defend the transgressions of other Arab and Muslim Americans or foreign agents, such as what happened with 9-11.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023

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