minaret
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To reach Ghorjomi mosque, one of the biggest, we drove up hairpin mountain lanes, edged with blue hydrangeas, until we spotted the minaret.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
She watched one tear the minaret off the top of the building.
From BBC • May 17, 2025
In one recording, a song about banishing darkness, associated with the current Jewish festival of Hanukkah, is heard sung in Hebrew through a loudspeaker in a minaret.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023
The minaret of a mosque was tilting to one side.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023
“Do you know that a long time ago a man fell from this minaret but was not harmed?”
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
Vocabulary lists containing minaret
Built To Last: Architectural Parlance
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English Words Derived from Arabic
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National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 2
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