How to Use Scheherazade in a Sentence

Scheherazade

noun
  • Elsewhere, wispier chiffons in a palette of sand and gem tones will add to the feeling of Scheherazade.
    — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Like Scheherazade telling stories to save her own life, the pigtailed scuba diver must convince the shark that there are better things to eat than herself.
    — Elise Broach, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • By some interpretations, the fawner resembles Scheherazade, forestalling death through creative feats that appease the men around her.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Concertmaster Erin Keefe’s violin playing acted as the voice of Scheherazade in the work, weaving a tale with life-or-death urgency.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The author of One Thousand and One Nights placed Scheherazade to tell her tales and Aladdin to find his magic lamp in the Uzbek city of Samarkand.
    — Daphne Beal, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2017
  • Moving from interrogations of Scheherazade’s myth to reflections of family lineage and to the frustrations of conceiving with a surrogate, Alyan charts the complications of building a life in the midst of personal transformation.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Imagine a 21st-century Scheherazade—in the form of a 63-year-old gay Beiruti teacher named Raja—spinning stories to keep himself and his 85-year-old mother alive in a dangerous and disruptive world.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Marking time through the months of a pregnancy, waiting for a baby carried by a surrogate in another country, Palestinian American poet and writer Hala Alyan tells stories, like Scheherazade, towards survival.
    — Eliana Ramage september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Hers is a disquieting book, awash in Jenny Holzer-like slogans, memories of a strict evangelical childhood, stories jigsawed together and sudden, breathtaking insights, all framed by the myth of Shahrazad (known in the West as Scheherazade).
    — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026

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