emir

Example Sentences

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“Storms don’t shake us. They remind us who we are,” proclaimed an electronic billboard in City Walk on Thursday night, with a quote from Dubai’s emir.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

With Noem’s attention focused on her need to travel in the style of a Persian Gulf emir, the actual administration of the department has suffered.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

He says each wing of the prison has an emir, or leader, who issues fatwas - rulings on points of Islamic law.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

The emir of Qatar is also very friendly with Trump, having given him, as a present, a $400 million jetliner to use as the next Air Force One.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2025

That’s what I thought, anyway, as we rode in the sweet-smelling car, through the garden estate of the emir, past marble beds full of black tulips, to his castle by the sea.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri