minaret

Example Sentences

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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

He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

Less than a kilometre from the front line, Mukhtar al-Badri Mohieddin is walking with a stick near a mosque with a damaged minaret.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024

"To distinguish the Ottoman mosques, the minaret is usually pencil-shaped," said Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

From Reuters • Sep. 17, 2023

Then the taxi headed into the rural West Bank of orchards and tiny villages, each with its own minaret and perched houses.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye