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.
The minaret was her husband's idea, and he sketched the initial design.
From BBC
She watched one tear the minaret off the top of the building.
From BBC
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
One video surfaced of residents rushing to mosques to announce from minarets that “the dog Bashar has fallen.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
