How to Use Persian in a Sentence

Persian

noun
  • Trump is set to have three days of summits among Persian Gulf rulers.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 2025-05-14
  • It has long been known as the Persian Gulf and is still called that in much of the world.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 2025-02-03
  • On our way to the airport, the sun shone gracefully above the Persian Gulf.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 2024-09-21
  • The wallpaper in the room is Soane Britain and the rug is antique Persian.
    — Troy J. McMullen, Architectural Digest, 2025-01-17
  • Then there is the Persian Gulf that helped pearls rain and reign in Paris throughout the period.
    — Lily Templeton, WWD, 2024-11-20
  • Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is a holy holiday that takes place on the spring equinox each March.
    — Liz Regalia, Parents, 2025-04-11
  • Spring cleaning has roots in Nowruz, or Persian New Year, which lands on the first day of the season.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 2025-04-08
  • News of the jet was reported ahead of Trump's trip to the Persian Gulf earlier this month.
    — April Rubin, Axios, 2025-05-21
  • Civilian airports have been closed in Iran and flights from the Persian Gulf were diverted.
    — USA TODAY, 2024-04-19
  • There is one thing that unites most Iranians, however — pride over the Persian Gulf.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 2025-05-12
  • The sailor accumulated at least four years of sea time and worked on numerous ships in the Persian Gulf.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2024-05-03
  • The move is in response to the harassment of oil tankers by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2023-08-08
  • The shelter found ideal adopters for each Persian among the hundreds of applications and expects to have all the cats in their new homes by the end of the week.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 2023-06-26
  • Iran was once Persia, and the gulf has been called the Persian Gulf since the 16th Century.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 2025-05-12
  • On one white-sand beach, the waves of the Persian Gulf lapped at the shore as grinning clients braced themselves before plunging into tubs of ice water.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 2023-09-10
  • Some 20% of the world’s oil passes through the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the wider world.
    — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-08-01
  • On a bay just off the Persian Gulf, two very unusual Navy vessels moved about: one built for speed, the other endurance, but both unmanned.
    — Eric Lipton, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-09-04
  • Around 14 people were injured when the plane hit severe turbulence as the aircraft approached the Persian Gulf.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 2023-12-06
  • As the water of the Persian Gulf receded from the Iranian coastline, a group of researchers found some of these blobs stuck to the rocky surface.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2024-07-24
  • Nearly 12 percent of global trade passes through the Red Sea, as well as a prodigious amount of oil from the Persian Gulf.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 2023-12-19
  • The interactions of rivers, tides, and sediment at the head of the Persian Gulf created small canals and date groves, which allowed water to flow through the terrain.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The 3-year-old exotic shorthair Persian belongs to Falcons long snapper George Carlson.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Before oil transformed the Persian Gulf, pearls and dates were its main exports, the latter to India, Europe, and the United States.
    — Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Emily Simpson invited everyone to her home for a celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, is recognized as one of the world's most important oil chokepoints.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
  • India, which traditionally received most of its oil from the Persian Gulf, has exponentially increased cheap Russian crude since Moscow was locked out of Europe’s energy markets.
    — Daniel Depetris, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • These range from Qurans from several Islamic regions to a pro-British, World War II propaganda poster printed in Persian with Middle Eastern drawings.
    — Russ Wiles, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • However, Ankara has now even larger ambitions, like the Development Road project, a major $17-20 billion infrastructure corridor linking Iraq’s Basra Port (on the Persian Gulf) to Turkey’s border and then onward into Europe.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Copernicus What To Know Carrier Strike Group 11, led by the USS Nimitz approached the strategic Strait of Hormuz during a northbound transit into the Persian Gulf, recent satellite imagery showed on Saturday according to open-source intelligence reports.
    — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • An investigation by The New Yorker published this week credibly makes the case that the Trumps stand to make at least $1 billion off real estate deals in the Persian Gulf, crypto ventures (like $TRUMP and $MELANIA meme coins), and other business opportunities.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025

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