How to Use emir in a Sentence

emir

noun
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  • Siraj Haqqani has been the deputy emir of the Taliban since 2015.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But President Biden has been on the phone just in the last 24 hours with the emir of Qatar.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Video shows the emir of Qatar in the stands, waving the Moroccan flag.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The emir was one of the few people allowed to meet Tchiani.
    — Sam Mednick and Chinedu Asadu, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Trump said Wednesday during a White House meeting with the emir of Kuwait.
    — Benjamin Brown, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Qatar later said that the emir had never spoken and that the state news agency had been hacked.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • In line to be the next emir of Qatar, Jassim had renounced the throne to focus on his true passion, soccer.
    — Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 14 June 2018
  • A year from now, or five or ten, how many Arabs will still believe the emir of Qatar really said those things?
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 19 July 2017
  • The emir also pledged to invest billions in Turkey (though Qatar has not yet done so).
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • But for all of their contempt, Egyptian rulers have become mendicants at the feet of the kings, emirs and sultans of the Gulf.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • The emir of the oil-rich country, sandwiched between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, had ruled for three years.
    — Mallory Moench, Time, 16 Dec. 2023
  • With the death of Zawahiri, Al Qaeda must now identify its third emir.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
  • On the drive, the emir would stop to hand commanders fistfuls of cash from the shopping bag under Padnos’ jump seat.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 25 Feb. 2021
  • There will be Aramco, pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
  • As Qatar's ruling emir visited the White House on Tuesday, the fruits of that labor began to show.
    — Josh Lederman, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The protests drew tens of thousands of Kuwaitis to the streets, forcing the emir to replace the prime minister and dissolve Parliament.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
  • In his visit next week to Kuwait, Tillerson’s will meet with the emir and others who are mediating the dispute.
    — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 7 July 2017
  • The new emir needs the endorsement of parliament for his crown prince nominee.
    — Fiona MacDonald, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • In Doha, the image of the emir is as ubiquitous as Saddam Hussein’s once was in Baghdad.
    — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
  • He was also linked to a 1985 assassination attempt against the emir of Kuwait.
    — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The hotel housing this rehab center is owned by a holding group whose driving force is Dubai’s emir.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Kuwait’s emir returns home after more than seven months in exile.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
  • None of the cell’s emirs have been tracked down, however, said Heval Sharwan, the commander of the unit responsible for rounding up the cell.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Starting in the 18th century, the Gulf emirs came under the protection of the British empire, which sought to keep rivals away from the approaches to India.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • The royal family has moved swiftly to assure a smooth transition after the death last week of the ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah Ahmed al-Sabah.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • In a phone call last week, Trump credited the emir with working to counter terror financing and extremism.
    — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • While Kuwait tolerates more free speech and boasts a more powerful parliament than many of its neighbors, the emir still had the final say in matters of state.
    — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The president heeded his friend's advice, met with the emir of Qatar and in September offered to mediate.
    — Michael Kranish, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
  • But its emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is less tolerant of criticism directed at him.
    — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Bahrain’s crown prince spoke with Qatar’s emir in a phone call last month, in a sign the two Gulf states could move towards repairing relations two years after the Arab boycott was lifted.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023

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