hegira
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
My own Hegira is a two-block schlep to a neighborhood bagel place, so I’m not the ideal audience for this heady Kerouacian stuff.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021
This point, the Hegira, is the beginning of the Moslem calendar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has told an interviewer that they understand their stay there to be similar to the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira, or migration from Mecca to Medina.
From Time Magazine Archive
Father Montoya, chief Jesuit, has left an account of the Hegira which he led down the river.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
