How to Use Shiraz in a Sentence

Shiraz

noun
  • In the city of Shiraz, in south-central Iran, long lines for gas have been forming around the city.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 2025-06-15
  • The area is known for powerful yet fresh perfumed Shiraz, and this is a top example.
    Christina Pickard, Bon Appétit, 2025-03-05
  • Shout-out, as well, to the superb Shiraz Market in Longwood.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 2025-03-07
  • While at Delheim my first favorite wine was a 2005 Shiraz.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2022-01-30
  • Explosions were also heard in Shiraz city in southern Iran.
    Nbc News, NBC news, 2025-06-15
  • Moshiri was born in 1963 in Shiraz, Iran, to a family that owned cinemas.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 2024-07-19
  • Users had spotted the vans around Tehran, Iran’s capital, as well as in the cities of Kermanshah and Shiraz.
    Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 2023-07-17
  • Varietals like Merlot and Shiraz are made by fermenting grapes and their skin, which contains high levels of flavonoids and histamines.
    Cheyenne Buckingham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2024-11-19
  • After attending elementary school in Shiraz, he was sent to a boarding school in Tehran run by Catholic priests.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 2023-06-24
  • Tappa Pass Shiraz hails from the Barossa Valley and has aromas of freshly ground white pepper, purple flowers, and black plum.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 2024-08-13
  • Childs, Coudron and their graduate student Amin Shiraz Gilani began by making two assumptions to constrain the scope of the problem.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2023-07-20
  • Sure enough, people in Yazd thought that planning for the future was more important than those in Shiraz did, and people in Shiraz liked the idea of living in the moment more than those in Yazd did.
    Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 2023-12-15
  • Flights were suspended in Isfahan and the Iranian cities of Tehran and Shiraz as well as airports across the country’s western borders, but those restrictions were soon eased.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2024-04-19
  • According to one version, known as the Kilwa Chronicle, seven Persian princes fleeing persecution set sail from the trading hub of Shiraz.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 2023-03-29
  • The head of the country’s track and field federation, Hashem Siami, resigned this weekend after some participants in an all-women half-marathon in the city of Shiraz competed without the hijab.
    Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-05-10
  • Additionally, a Syrah/Shiraz seminar is planned with winemakers from several properties.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 2025-02-20
  • Inside, one of my colleagues, a bearded intensivist named Shiraz Saleem, was treating a teen-age girl with diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening complication of diabetes caused by a lack of insulin.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 2025-04-18
  • For the mission at hand, Haverford pairs Edwards and Hastings with Mossad agents Eliza (Rona-Lee Shimon) and Tal (Shiraz Tzarfati).
    Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
  • All room categories, of which there are five (beginning with the entry-level Shiraz room and ending with the Cap Classique Suite, which has its own plunge pool), come with complimentary use of the mini-bar and gifted bottles of white and red wine.
    Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 2024-05-10
  • In addition to Pelphrey and Sandino, Roe’s roster of talent includes Guy Burnet, Sebastiano Pigazzi, Bobby Naderi, Shiraz Tzarfati, and Treylan Newton, as well as rising filmmakers like Kane Parsons (the 20-year-old director behind The Backrooms), Harley Chamandy, DeVon Franklin, and James Madigan.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025

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