Examples of jihad in a Sentence
Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
The streets of London, Paris and Berlin are blocked by marchers calling for jihad.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
Eventually, Brother Eric tried to entice the boys into talking about jihad.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
Brother Eric was a white man who claimed to be a convert to Islam, and Minhaj said Brother Eric attempted to coax the men at the mosque to talk about jihad.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
When five of their friends went to Pakistan this spring to return to jihad, both men brimmed with jealousy.
—Christina Goldbaum Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
In fact, Islam itself, the jihad, was founded by a woman and the prophet’s an employee of a woman.
—Abc News, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
In 2015, an Iranian news agency released photographs of the overhauled F-14s, revealing that the self-sufficiency jihad was by this point quite advanced.
—Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
Authorities believe Bickford started studying radical Islam literature over the summer and plotted to embark on a jihad against the United States government around November, according to the press release.
—Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2023
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Word History
Arabic jihād
1837, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Jihad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jihad. Accessed 8 Dec. 2023.
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