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

A mosque minaret collapsed in Jemaa el-Fna Square and many narrow streets in the city's old Medina were filled with rubble.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

A minaret looming above Moulay Brahim was severely damaged and appeared at risk of toppling if nudged by another tremor.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

I imagined the donkey my father mentioned standing there under the minaret the way Souma had stood in the shelter after the war.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat