How to Use muezzin in a Sentence

muezzin

noun
  • Now, sitting up on her bedding, Mayya heard the muezzin’s voice.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Its muezzin was locked out and prevented from giving the daily calls to prayer.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Muezzin calls to Muslim prayer echo off the surrounding hills.
    — Joshua Mitnick, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
  • Along with the muezzin’s call to prayer the unfamiliar sound of laughter can be heard.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • One recent chilly morning outside the mosque, the muezzin’s rising call filled the air.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Visitors looking for a minaret or trying to follow the call of the muezzin will search in vain.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
  • The mournful poetry of the muezzin’s call, the comfort of a day measured in prayer.
    — Keija Parssinen, The New York Review of Books, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Witnesses said the man who was stabbed is the mosque's muezzin, the person who calls Muslims to pray.
    — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • By Samira Ahmed Babr woke at dawn to the muezzin’s call and the swoosh swoosh of street sweepers.
    — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • At the Sabarmati, the early-evening muezzin calls began to rise from the Old City.
    — Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The call of the muezzin, summoning Muslims to prayer, echoed through the valley dotted with olive trees.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The mosque’s imam and muezzin were at the funeral, too, their heads swathed in bandages after being wounded in the attack.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The muezzin’s voice carried across the city, amplified by loudspeakers, each word vibrating through the air and brushing against walls and tents.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Moments later, a muezzin called Muslims to early afternoon prayers.
    — Aijaz Hussain, ajc, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There’s the rounded octagonal level above that, framed at the top by a surrounding platform that suggests a muezzin’s balcony of yore.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • Tall minarets of mosques marked the towns like spears stuck into the earth; occasionally the muezzin crackled to life to issue the adhān, the prayer-call to the faithful.
    — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
  • As Lichtenberg walks off toward the hospital, the drone of the muezzin’s call to prayer crackles and hisses over a loudspeaker.
    — Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
  • The monotone of the muezzin beckoning Muslims to worship five times a day is usually accompanied by a rush to close stores.
    — Donna Abu-Nasr, Bloomberg.com, 20 May 2020
  • The call to prayer begins with the voice of one muezzin, quickly joined by others to become a crescendo of calls that envelops us from the surrounding 36 mosques.
    — Nicola Chilton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Without electricity or loudspeakers to broadcast the call to prayer, muezzins must rely on the strength of their own voices for the five-times-a-day ritual.
    — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2017
  • When the prayer ended, the muezzin began the takbeer and tahleel, using the loudspeakers to extend congratulations to the people of Gaza.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • On a recent afternoon, around two dozen ex-students from Kayaphuri and other Rohingya-run schools recently shut down were playing marbles as a mosque loudspeaker broadcast the muezzin’s call to prayer.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2022
  • At the moment of interment, as the Jewish prayer for the dead was being chanted, the muezzin from a nearby Palestinian village began the Muslim call to prayer for believers.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2020
  • In addition to its religious significance for billions of Muslims, Ramadan also means tables laden with rich and varied meals eaten after the muezzin's call to break the fast at sunset.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The male quartet Barbara Furtuna sang music from Corsica of raw emotive power, filled with muezzin-like embellishment and expressive hand gestures.
    — Patrick Rucker, Washington Post, 9 July 2019
  • At mosques around the world, the muezzins who ordinarily call Muslims to prayer five times a day are enjoining the faithful to pray at home, for the first time since Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7 have killed more than 100 preachers, including religious scholars, imams, muezzins (those who perform the call to prayer), and hafiz (Muslims who have memorized the Quran), according to the ministry.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024

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