How to Use emirate in a Sentence

emirate

noun
Definition of emiratenext
Synonyms for emiratenext
  • In the five other emirates, it is sold over the counter.
    — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Dubai See this complete guide for what to do and eat in the city of Dubai, and read on for what to do in the rest of the emirate.
    — Rebecca Holland, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • The amount wasn’t detailed in a tweet from Sheikh Hamdan, the deputy ruler of the emirate, on Tuesday.
    — Bloomberg.com, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Dubai is the first emirate to set a charge on single-use plastic bags.
    — Jomana Karadsheh and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The princess has twice tried to flee the emirate, accusing her father of abuse.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
  • As a growing city with ambition to burn, the emirate has been a petri dish for bold projects for the past two decades.
    — CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In the rolling red dunes of Sharjah, the emirate just north of Dubai, lies an area with a significant claim to fame.
    — Nicola Chilton, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Over the past three decades construction has boomed across the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • We were told that this will be resolved by the new government (or emirate).
    — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • But things are changing for the gas-rich emirate’s 2m migrant workers, who are 95% of its labour force.
    — The Economist, 8 May 2021
  • Today, the area near the marshland is more known for the low-cost liquor store at the emirate’s Barracuda Beach Resort.
    — Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Today, the area near the marshland is more known for the low-cost liquor store at the emirate's Barracuda Beach Resort.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
  • With the test line up and running, uSky has also received initial approval to build a line around the coastal town of Khor Fakkan, to the east of the emirate.
    — Ana De Oliva, CNN, 8 July 2021
  • Abu Dhabi’s western region, Al Dhafra, is about two thirds of the entire emirate.
    — Johanna Read, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Al Ain, in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, has been a crucial desert oasis for millennia.
    — Nicola Chilton, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2021
  • And in the emirate's Jubail Mangrove Park, a forest of the resilient plants is thriving in the intensely salty waters of the world's hottest sea.
    — CNN, 6 Aug. 2022
  • And back in 2010, when this tiny emirate won the rights to host the tournament, Qatar never could have imagined such a stellar matchup.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2022
  • In the fall of 1996, the Taliban seized Kabul and declared the country an Islamic emirate.
    — Derek Hawkins, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The emirate attempted to replicate the veneer of a modern state.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The plate sold over the weekend can be transferred to any car registered in the emirate, supercar or not.
    — Low De Wei, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • And Qatar has more or less openly paid prominent people to say nice things about the emirate before the World Cup.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The country had modernized, a fact that many in the emirate understood.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The first emirate was launched in 1996, shortly after the Taliban arrived in Kabul.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • But there are other factors at play in the glitzy emirate, home to the long-haul carrier Emirates and tallest tower on Earth.
    — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2021
  • The emirate had been under an overnight curfew along with the rest of the UAE since March 26 but the lockdown will now continue to run around the clock, officials said.
    — NBC News, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Time Out Market has also recently secured a deal for a new venue in emirate Abu Dhabi, which is due to open in 2023.
    — Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The two governments jointly built a gleaming branch of the Louvre museum in the emirate.
    — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2022
  • Cameras are especially prevalent in the two largest emirates, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • More than a decade ago, the tiny emirate kicked off an ambitious plan to identify the kids who could become its 2022 tournament squad.
    — WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In 1996, the Islamist group seized Kabul and declared Afghanistan an Islamic emirate.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021

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