pasha

Example Sentences

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Now a city icon, it was a diplomatic gift from Muhammad Ali, the viceroy and pasha who is considered the founder of modern Egypt.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

In this middle grade novel, an elderly camel brings two baby chicks to safety, distracting them with tales of her life as one of nine racing camels gifted by a Turkish pasha to the U.S.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2021

Born in Cairo, the pasha was a renowned art collector and gambler who came from a Turkish-Albanian family from what is now northern Greece.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2018

The United States paid when its navy could not resist, but the pasha of Tripoli declared war when Jefferson stopped payment in 1801.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

So the telling goes, the young doctor of Isfahan was summoned to the palace of a great pasha.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri