How to Use Sunni in a Sentence

Sunni

noun
  • Some Sunni Muslims tried to help their neighbors who were unable to sneak out.
    — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 2025-04-20
  • The region where the attack took place is known for conflict between Sunni and Shia sects of Islam.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 2023-05-04
  • As a Sunni Islamist group, Hamas has had an even looser relationship with Iran.
    — Joost Hiltermann, Foreign Affairs, 2024-03-28
  • Many of them fear the possibility that Sunni Islamist extremists will take over.
    — Sarah El Deeb and Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 2024-12-16
  • Though a small number of Uyghur people are Christian, most practice Sunni Islam.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 2023-06-28
  • Furthermore, the Sunni states roundabout would welcome any chance to disrupt Iran’s hegemony.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 2024-09-30
  • Yet, his courtship of Sunni elites merely created the illusion that Assad’s regime was inclusive.
    — Sefa Secen / Made By History, TIME, 2024-12-17
  • The Taliban also insists that the Sunni Hanafi school of thought should form the legal basis for the negotiations.
    — Ehsanullah Amiri, WSJ, 2020-09-23
  • That brought retaliatory attacks against Sunni Muslim residents, and there have been pitched battles between armed groups from both sides.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 2024-11-25
  • Large earthen berms force vehicles to swerve in a zigzag; at one checkpoint, an aging battle tank sits at the ready, its cannon pointing at surrounding Sunni Bedouin towns.
    — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 2025-06-11
  • However, for Destiny, Sunni's now frenemy and her partner's ex, the news is awkward and complicated.
    — Esther Kang, People.com, 2024-10-10
  • Ten years ago, the northern-Iraq city of Mosul fell to a Sunni jihadist insurgent group, after the Iraqi army collapsed and then vanished.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2024-12-02
  • Officer Masood Syed, a Sunni Muslim who had been suspended for refusing to trim his one-inch beard to 1 mm.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2024-04-11
  • Meanwhile, its relationships with the Sunni Arab dictatorships have been improving.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2024-10-07
  • As friction with the government grew, a series of guerrilla wars with the national army were fought, as well as a brief border conflict with Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 2023-12-20
  • Katz alleges that Hamas’ social media activity has been effective in cultivating rare support across disparate radical Islamist groups around the world, whether Sunni or Shia.
    — Darren Loucaides, WIRED, 2023-10-31
  • The secular opposition was largely destroyed, leaving only the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (a Sunni group).
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 2024-12-22
  • Conservative Sunni Muslim countries often see the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, as the bulwark against Western secularization.
    — Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 2023-07-25
  • The city of Homs itself is a microcosm of Syria, where Sunni Muslims are the majority, but also where religious and ethnic diversity has long been a point of cultural and national pride.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2025-01-31
  • Lebanon’s complex political system means the presidency is usually given to a Christian, while the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament a Shiite.
    — Dana Khraiche, Bloomberg.com, 2023-06-05
  • About nine months after assuming power, al-Sharaa’s new regime is struggling to consolidate its authority, in large measure because Syrian minority groups are concerned they will be treated as second-class citizens — or worse — by the Sunni Islamists who now rule Damascus.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Jerry Grayson/Helifilms Australia PTY Ltd/Getty Guest speakers included musician Irvin Mayfield, poet Sunni Patterson, councilman Oliver Thomas, and former mayor Marc Morial.
    — Janee Bolden, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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