minaret

Example Sentences

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To reach Ghorjomi mosque, one of the biggest, we drove up hairpin mountain lanes, edged with blue hydrangeas, until we spotted the minaret.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

Less than a kilometre from the front line, Mukhtar al-Badri Mohieddin is walking with a stick near a mosque with a damaged minaret.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024

The minaret of a mosque was tilting to one side.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023

“Do you know that a long time ago a man fell from this minaret but was not harmed?”

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat