How to Use shah in a Sentence

shah

noun
  • The shah’s paranoia made things worse.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Khomeini won and the shah was done for good.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Iran does not need another shah.
    — Jalil Pakray, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • My great-grandpa was a general in the shah’s army.
    — Talla Mountjoy, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • My great-grandpa was a general in the shah's army.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Many of them urged the shah to toughen up and crack down harder on protesters.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • Is the -- is the son of the former shah the right figure to lead this transition?
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Like the prince, the shah was an unelected monarch with a tarnished human rights record.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2022
  • The protests that brought down the shah in 1979 unfolded over more than a year.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2022
  • But the shah continued to see Israel as a friend and an ally.
    — Ali M. Ansari, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
  • They were owned by the shah of Iran and the maharishis of India.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • Pahlavi was the name of a beautiful large boulevard in Tehran under the shah.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Pahlavi was the name of a beautiful large boulevard in Tehran under the shah.
    — Talla Mountjoy, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The shah entered the atomic age standing on the shoulders of others.
    — Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • From 1941 to 1979, the shah ruled Iran with an iron fist.
    — Eric Lob, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The shah, propped up by the Americans, had fled a month earlier.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • Arafat was the first foreign dignitary to visit Iran after the fall of the shah.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 16 May 2021
  • For those with no hope of making shah, the vintage G-wagen market is heating up.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
  • Three years later, the shah signed a border agreement with Baghdad and shut off the weapons pipeline.
    — Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • But the uprising quickly chased the terminally ill shah from his throne.
    — Jim Hoagland, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • The shah banned the film for its depiction of the hardships of Iranian rural life.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Safavi was executed by the shah a decade later, when Ali Khamenei was a teenager.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Yet what appears to be just a charming comic romance is in fact a sober indictment of life in shah-era Tehran.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Barb gets a crash course in a foreign culture through her son’s captors, who have endured their share of loss and pain under the shah’s brutal regime.
    — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
  • In 1854 the shah wanted to fly American flags from his merchant ships.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
  • And in a popular video clip, soccer fans could be heard shouting the name of the shah, who was deposed in 1979.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
  • The president gave in to the hard-liners, admitting the shah to the United States.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • The author is quick to charge that the United States enabled the shah’s dictatorship.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Our regions have long paid a heavy price, under both the shah and the clerical regime, for simply asserting our identity.
    — Jalil Pakray, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In his first weeks in power, Banisadr worked to bring order to the shambles that had been left by the collapse of the shah's government.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021

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