How to Use minaret in a Sentence

minaret

noun
  • The mosque is blackened and burned, the minaret split in two.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The minaret was still standing, though its top had been blown off.
    — Bora Erden, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • The mosque and its leaning minaret have stood for eight centuries.
    — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 21 June 2017
  • Artillery punched a gaping hole in the minaret of the city’s main mosque.
    — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • What looks like a minaret rising tall among the palms is part of an outdoor stage.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023
  • It is known for its gorgeous domes and six soaring minaret towers.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Initial plans call for a building with minaret and a dome topped by a crescent moon.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Beyond was the belfry of the cathedral, in which the minaret of the old mosque had been buried.
    — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Their minarets dot the skyline and the five daily calls to prayer are part of the city’s soundscape.
    — Terri Colby, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
  • At dawn, the hopeful call to morning prayer rises from the village minaret.
    — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Sivas begins with apartment blocks and minarets lancing a peach sky shaded with haze.
    — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Domes and minarets are lopped off mosques and replaced with curving Chinese roofs.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Smoke billowed from within the crowded camp, with mosque minarets in the backdrop.
    — Nasser Nasser and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
  • In his new apartment in Fort Worth, the call to prayer now comes from an app, not a minaret.
    — Giovanna Dell'orto and Mariam Fam, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The minaret is a global symbol of Islam and the faith’s call to prayer five times a day.
    — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
  • And the building will not include minarets typical of other mosques in the area.
    — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Tori said the minaret should serve as a signal to the broader community, too.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • The historic mosque and its leaning minaret has been reduced to ruins and rubble.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
  • The mirror over the sink is framed inside a minaret made from tile, and blown glass lights dangle from brass chains like torches.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The tower, like that of Seville Cathedral, replaced a long-ago minaret.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • To the north, from a blue minaret at the center of a tiny village, just a stone's throw from the base, comes the solemn call to evening prayer.
    — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Only the lonely minarets, poking up out of the clutter, lend a bit of dignity to the slum.
    — Chris Hedges, Harpers Magazine, 15 June 2024
  • Visitors looking for a minaret or trying to follow the call of the muezzin will be searching in vain.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2017
  • For your Eid party this year, turn ordinary crayons into the minaret of mosques with this easy and adorable craft.
    — Manal Aman, Woman's Day Magazine, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Mosque neighbors said the man, who couldn’t be reached for comment, has continued to use the minaret as his private perch.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2018
  • Some houses were five or six storeys high, and the minarets attributed to Aurangzeb towered over the city.
    — Anu Kumar, Quartz India, 26 July 2019
  • The minaret that leaned like Italy’s Tower of Pisa had stood for more than 840 years.
    — Balint Szlanko, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
  • The sun is setting and in the distance Jordanian flags can be seen rustling in the wind next to a mosque's minaret.
    — Elspeth Dehnert, Marie Claire, 29 Sep. 2016
  • In 2009, the Swiss voted to ban the construction of new minarets on mosques.
    — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
  • There is the wreckage of the 12th century al-Nuri mosque and its huge, leaning minaret.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 29 June 2017

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