djinn

Example Sentences

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There are still good reasons to analyze its efforts in terms of djinns, golems and the like.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Thus we tumble down a labyrinthine rabbit hole of accounts of men, women and otherworldly beings like djinns and ifrits, as they enthrall and entrap, deceive and conquer one another.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2018

This play is partly magical in its incarnation of the djinns, ancient spirits which the young girl incants.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

Nuri Pasha knew that the British had insured oil-rich Iraq against Russian pressure as well as against bandits and djinns.

From Time Magazine Archive

The joke was that to my seventh grade English class, I had made my father a myth, like djinns, like Rostam, or like Mike Maguffy’s girlfriend from summer camp that nobody else knows.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri