How to Use Arab in a Sentence

Arab

noun

• The president’s poll numbers among Arab Americans have, in a short period of time, dropped like a stone.
  — Hafiz Rashid, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• The age of mass protest ushered in by the Arab Spring is hardly over, but the record of failures, setbacks, and cataclysms has been dispiriting.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• Alongside Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the cities continue to rotate through the top four spots.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2023
• The Arab Spring forced Saleh out of office in 2012, even as the Houthis expanded their hold over the north.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• Michigan is home to several hundred thousand Arab Americans, most of whom live in the Detroit area.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Feb. 2024
• Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates reopened their embassies in Damascus.
  — Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
• For the first time, the 22 countries of the Arab League called in a statement last month for Hamas to give up control of Gaza and hand over its weapons.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
• But, sandwiched between the two superpowers, the United Arab Emirates is beginning to punch above its weight.
  — TIME, 20 Mar. 2024
• The prisoner exchange on neutral grounds in the United Arab Emirates took place last December.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Tunisia had previously been described as the only democracy to have emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring movement.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 July 2023
• It was addressed to her 13-year-old son, Gaith, who left Gaza at the start of the war to live with his father in the United Arab Emirates.
  — Edith M. Lederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
• The civilian vessel had departed Dubai and was traveling to the United Arab Emirates when a dozen fast-attack craft surrounded it.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Back in March, the designer unveiled a megayacht intended to be the official flagship of the United Arab Emirates.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
• This was after the Arab Spring and the new government in Morocco was controlled by the Islamist party, and had a very conservative outlook.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• For that scene alone, the film was banned in multiple countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
• Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) a country with an economy which was built on fossil fuels.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Trump officials have also internally floated the prospect of seeking an Intel investment from the United Arab Emirates.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
• In 1947, the United Nations voted to establish two states for two peoples—one Jewish, one Arab—subject to a list of conditions.
  — Ami Ayalon, Time, 18 Aug. 2025
• The two share a kiss, a moment that led to the film being banned in several countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2025
• Later that school year, a perfunctory and poorly organized Arab Heritage Month celebration was staged to appease my public criticism of the school’s silence on Gaza.
  — Sahar Mustafah august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
• During her military career, Babbitt served in the Air Force with deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates.
  — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Rare street protests have broken out in Bahrain as a mass hunger strike enters its fifth week, activists say, in a faint echo of the uprising that swept the Gulf kingdom starting in 2011, during the Arab Spring.
  — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• The bank raised its Macao estimates and cited a more bullish view on Wynn’s Al Marjan resort in the United Arab Emirates as additional catalyst.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
• Anas Baba reported from Khan Younis, Gaza, and Aya Batrawy from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
• Analyst Robin Farley was especially bullish on Wynn’s Al Marjan resort in the United Arab Emirates.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
• The Vietnam War, Watergate, and the Arab Oil Embargo all contributed to a turbulent geopolitical environment.
  — Steve Booren, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
• Farley’s is bullish on Wynn’s Al Marjan Island resort, a 70-story hotel tower in the United Arab Emirates that is scheduled to open early 2027.
  — Pia Singh, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
• In order to do this, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the five other states that comprise the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have built sprawling facilities and hired hundreds of thousands of people to work in them.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
• Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab – Dubai While Dubai may be associated with its vertical skyline, the recently opened Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab makes a different kind of statement by staying closer to the ground.
  — Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• Lani Kingston, adjunct professor at Portland State University, says a single coffee bean dating from the 12th century has been found at an archaeological site in the United Arab Emirates.
  — Ali Halit Diker, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025