How to Use Muslim in a Sentence

Muslim

noun
  • 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
  • In 1982, the Assads put down a rebellion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood staged an uprising in the city of Hama.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • There are also the bean pies that celebrate the Black Muslim movement.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Aqsa was raised in Kuwait by South Asian Muslim migrant worker parents.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 15 Oct. 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
  • Later, Christian crusaders built citadels along the coast that went on to be repurposed by Muslim Ottoman rulers.
    — Daniele Hamamdjian, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Hamas, which grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, was founded in the late 1980s and is dedicated to resisting the Israeli state.
    — Mick Krever, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Ghalib, an immigrant from Yemen who is Muslim, leads a city that is believed to be roughly half Muslim.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024
  • And the Jewish community has been impacted, but the Muslim and people of Arab origin as well.
    — ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • For the past five years, a group of 10 women – three Jewish, three Muslim, three Christian, and one Baháʼí – has been meeting monthly to listen to one another.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2024
  • In a market setting that surprise-pops out of the set’s walls, Pi is confronted by choices as Catholic, Muslim and Hindu forces swirl to convert him.
    — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The number of Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist Michiganders remained flat at around 1% each.
    — Joe Guillen, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Meet Hoda and Yasmin, the two women helping Muslim Americans find love while staying true to their faith.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Yassin, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was a figure of unlikely charisma.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But there are also Christian and Sunni Muslim enclaves.
    — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Social media videos showed Sudanese soldiers inside the palace, giving the date as the 21st day of Ramadan, the holy Muslim fasting month, which corresponds to Friday.
    — Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Hamoudi’s sister is a devout Muslim and a supporter of Hezbollah.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Abdur said that Jabbar grew up Muslim, along with his entire family.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Syed, who is Muslim, refused to comply, and he was questioned and harassed regularly.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025

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