How to Use sheikh in a Sentence

sheikh

noun
  • The sheikh’s tomb blocks my vision.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • In death, the sheikh had left him feeling as bereft as an orphan.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
  • A lot of my friends were killed and injured also the sheikh in our mosque was killed.
    — Sami Zayara, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The sheikh’s trial is expected to start in the first half of next year.
    — Stephen Wade, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The rooms, too, are fit for a sheik, with bathrooms replete with marble tubs.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The sheikh’s many roles in sports give him an oversize position in the races to host events.
    — Tariq Panja, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
  • Now’s your chance to live like a Middle Eastern sheikh.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Take the Halloween mask that's supposed to be a grinning sheikh.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2017
  • He was contacted to say a Qatari sheikh wanted to buy a racehorse.
    — Matt Majendie, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The sheikh, he was told, was willing to invest $100 million in the deal.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2018
  • The sheik does not want the unwelcome news of his brother’s return to reach the rest of the village.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The sheikh’s lawyers requested that the children be returned to Dubai.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • Badly wounded, the sheikh left Palestine and stopped playing an active role in the war.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Princess Haya, the most visible and glamorous of the sheikh’s reported six wives, has left him.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • Saints, imams, and sheikhs stood between the individual and God.
    — Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • When a boy turns sixteen, he is assigned a sheikh from his hometown and studies with him in a local prayer room at the shrine every weekend.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • To view David as a marginal Bedouin sheikh would be a mistake, Ben-Yosef thinks.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
  • Electronic billboards all showed the late sheikh's image in Dubai on Friday night as flags flew at half-staff.
    — Fox News, 14 May 2022
  • Some Jews believe the biblical Joseph is buried in the tomb, while Muslims say a sheikh is buried there.
    — Tia Goldenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Lying on the sand under a tree, fiddling with his prayer beads, the aging village sheikh sprang to his feet, shouting at his son to chase the police.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The sheikh has still been active in Asian sports politics while awaiting the criminal trial.
    — Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The couple married in 2004, with Princess Haya then becoming the sheikh’s sixth and youngest wife.
    — Julia Webster, Time, 3 July 2019
  • Eventually the sheikh started his own racing team and gave Todd a job but, surprise, surprise, funding ran out a year later.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Born to a woman owned by the local sheikh, Zarifa was sold to Merchant Sulayman at the age of sixteen.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Some of the challenges are enshrined in the law devised some 20 years ago after an inquiry that followed Sophie's, brush with the fake sheikh.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The sheikh responded by outlawing the use of anabolic steroids on horses in the UAE.
    — Beth Harris, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Moor said Haya and her children needed the extensive provision to protect them from the sheikh, as well as because of their royal status.
    — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The Noble Sanctuary’s sheikh and the city’s governor were arrested, but that did little to tamp down the public fury.
    — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The plot concerns a caravan in Morocco that's escorting a dying sheikh to the medieval city of Sijilmasa, where he will be buried.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • Some Bedouin sheikhs look to Prince Hamzah, the king’s half-brother, who was removed as heir apparent in 2004 to make way for the king’s son.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2019

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