jinni
Example Sentences
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Throughout much of the Islamic world, a jinni, or genie as it is sometimes spelled, is considered a very real spiritual phenomenon.
From National Geographic
If you can get a jinni to sign a contract, they will never break it.
From National Geographic
I could see the jinni was in her eyes.
From National Geographic
However most jinni like to be alone in the old places.
From National Geographic
Like a jinni of air come to bring us all to our knees.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.