How to Use caliphate in a Sentence

caliphate

noun
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  • With the fall of Raqqa, this idea of a caliphate is at an end.
    — TIME.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • There was no choice but to try to escape the caliphate.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • So if the caliphate is gone, why is the U.S. still supporting the Kurds?
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But as the caliphate crumbled, the stories of those who were part of it have been hard to verify.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
  • There were dead bodies here and there, ISIS and civilians, soldiers and hostages of a caliphate.
    — Andrew Doran, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Its forces have routed the would-be caliphate and regained control of the borders.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Jihadists would set up a new caliphate on Egyptian turf.
    — The Economist, 6 July 2019
  • The caliphate's destroyed, but there's thousands of fighters over there.
    — Nick Givas, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In summer 2017, the unit moved to the outskirts of Raqqah, capital of Islamic State’s caliphate, for the start of a siege.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • The regime’s problem with the West is the West’s very existence, which obstructs its path to a global caliphate.
    — Reza Pahlavi, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Then, the terrorists can claim their caliphate: a bone-white ethnostate, armed to the teeth, that is by, for, and about the master race.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Prison breaks have been a priority for Islamic State since the demise of the caliphate.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Hey Bin Laden, how's that global caliphate coming along?
    — Adam Weinstein, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2015
  • That was the basis of Zafira's caliphate's misconceptions, but of course, there's more to it than that.
    — Dennis Tang, Teen Vogue, 28 May 2019
  • Experts say that some women were indeed taken to the caliphate against their will.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2019
  • Exultant armies and militias now occupy the ground once held by the caliphate.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2017
  • Yet here again, the affiliate did not declare a caliphate.
    — Nabih Bulos, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia has called for a global caliphate.
    — Jon Emont, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • The caliphate, which ruled large parts of Europe, Asia and Africa between the 14th and 20th centuries, was known for keeping meticulous records.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2020
  • In 2014, when the sect claimed the area as the headquarters of its caliphate, fighters slaughtered hundreds of people in the public abattoir.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020
  • But fortunes have changed, and the caliphate is now in deep financial trouble, according to a new study.
    — Rick Noack, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
  • The Islamic State, with its own agenda to rule Syria as a caliphate, is being routed from its strongholds.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The victory was a turning point in the war against the caliphate, which had used Manbij as a base to plan attacks on Europe and supply fighters to Raqqa.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • Other attempts at reviving the institution of the caliphate elsewhere in the Muslim world flared in the 1920s.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The caliphate was smashed, after President Trump changed the rules of engagement, and the president claimed credit.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The final stage is to establish a state and stitch the other regions together into a caliphate.
    — Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • As the battle for Raqqa ramps up, there appears to be no wider U.S. strategy for what to do after this caliphate capital falls.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 29 June 2017
  • Radicalization led the couple to relocate with their four small children to Raqqa, Syria, in 2014 to join the fight for a caliphate.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Coping with the aftermath of the caliphate has produced a separate danger.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Around 8,000 of the children now living in the camp are foreigners, from dozens of countries around the world, who were either born in the caliphate or relocated there by their parents.
    — Washington Post, 20 June 2019

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