jinni

Example Sentences

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I was upstairs in one home and the jinni took away the stairs so I could not find my way out.

From National Geographic

If you can get a jinni to sign a contract, they will never break it.

From National Geographic

He pleaded with Said to remove a malevolent jinni, or spirit, that had entered his life.

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Said Mohammed turns to oils, spices and incantations when he is called on to hunt down and expel a jinni that is causing harm to humans. 

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Like a jinni of air come to bring us all to our knees.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir