How to Use Arabic in a Sentence

Arabic

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• Soldiers shone lights in their faces and spoke in Arabic and Hebrew.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
• Neta said that his mom, who had worked as a nurse and midwife, spoke in Arabic to try to calm down the attackers.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 10 Oct. 2023
• Now, Sadah and his classmates are among the last to take Arabic at the high school, which has offered the class for years.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
• In his living room, the television was set to Al Jazeera Arabic.
  — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• In phonetic Lebanese Arabic, the name for the recipe is murabba el meshmosh.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• Algol relates to the Arabic al-ghül, which signifies demon or ghoul.
  — Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026
• She was then instructed to sign a form, which was written in Arabic, and permitted to leave the airport.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
• The ten lines of the ‘anbara poem are the ten sections of the book, all untranslated, just in Arabic.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
• Oxford researchers found the same text can take roughly three times as many tokens in Arabic as in English.
  — Faisal Saeed, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
• Alaa suddenly realizes that their dog doesn’t react to Arabic.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Right-to-left scripts such as Hebrew or Arabic can complicate the translation process.
  — Ihor Hamal, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• The guards taught her son Gal 250 words in Arabic to keep him occupied and brought him a notebook to study.
  — Anat Schwartz Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• In Arabic it’s called Qalaat al-Shaqif, or Castle of the High Rock.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
• Last year, that meant using some make-shift hand gestures to communicate with a new student who spoke only Arabic.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• The agents huddled to discuss their options while Fatma held Rania’s hand and prayed with her in Arabic.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Many before Labīd and many after him across the long arc of Arabic, have begun their poems by standing upon ruins.
  — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
• Traditionally, ‘ryad’ or ‘رياض’ in Arabic means a lush and verdant garden, or oasis.
  — Katie Silcox, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2026
• Others are finding creative ways to spell critical words about the conflict in both Arabic and English.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Zein speaks Spanish, French, Arabic and Farsi and his soccer journey is unique.
  — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 23 June 2026
• One person asked, in Arabic, about issues concerning a lack of follow-up from the 49th Precinct.
  — Chris Crowley, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2023
• Finally, someone speaks to me in what sounds like native Palestinian Arabic.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The outlet released a report and photos of the documents, all in Arabic, on Friday.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2023
• At the time, Abu Dagga worked for the Independent Arabic.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
• Where before Spanish was the only language, signage in Arabic and French has appeared.
  — Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
• His wife, Yusra Abu-Alhasab, peels back the curtain to tell her husband something in Arabic.
  — Jenna Thompson june 24, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
• The documentary is told in a mix of Arabic, English, French and Kurdish.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• All around me, the dining room hummed with conversations in Italian, English, and Arabic.
  — Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
• These days, Parkinson is retired but is working on a new translation of the Arabic Book of Mormon.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2022
• Staff greet guests in French first; those around me in the lobby during check-in were speaking in Portuguese, Italian, and Arabic.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
• When starting to learn Arabic, few students of the language would expect the journey to lead them back to slavery in the antebellum South.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 10 Aug. 2023

Arabic

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• Swagg Man did seem to have the French and Arabic youth beat down.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
• In Arabic folklore, a ghoul is an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The post added an Arabic turn of phrase used on birthdays and holidays.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• The name Sahara itself comes from the Arabic word for desert.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
• Haboob is an Arabic word for a violent dust storm or sandstorm.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Mother advised me not to go outside and play after my Arabic lesson.
  — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Henna is an Arabic word that refers to a plant natively found in Asia and Africa.
  — Manal Aman, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2023
• The content has been fully adapted and tailored with Arabic voiceovers and graphics.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• But entire blocks of Rimal, Arabic for ‘sands’, have already been destroyed.
  — Sam Dagher, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2023
• But anyone keeping a close eye on the many moving parts of the Arabic film scene right now knows that the unpredictable can very much happen.
  — Becky Lucas, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023
• There are more than 12 collections — many pieces have Arabic names thought to empower the wearer.
  — Mariah Thomas, goodhousekeeping.com, 1 June 2023
• While introducing the film, Story shared that her first language was Arabic.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• The original Arabic dial has been brought back, with no date and a colour pattern fitting of the decade of the ‘70’s.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The history of the mint julep cocktail The mint julep got its start as an Arabic drink made with water and rose petals dubbed the julab.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
• The holiday is Arabic for the celebration of breaking the fast.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
• Across each episode, Pada hears a new Arabic word that will eventually help fight the monster in the story.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
• In the lower west side of Manhattan were some of the greatest poets and writers that the Arabic speaking world has known.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2024
• The school also launched a preparatory program for Arabic speakers from East Jerusalem.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
• Drake added some more ink to his face recently, as seen in pictures over the weekend in which some Arabic script was spotted above the rapper’s right eyebrow.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2023
• Voters can choose English, Arabic or Bengali-language ballots to cast their vote.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2023
• The region’s cuisine features a blend of Maya, Spanish, and Arabic flavors.
  — Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 17 Aug. 2025
• So far in 2023, three of the five top-grossing films of the year in Saudi Arabia are Arabic.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Her husband, a native Arabic speaker from Jordan, sparked her interest in the language.
  — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
• Much of the cast’s colorful clothing is printed with Arabic writing, some of which is a reproduction of Said’s own.
  — Adeline Sire, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• The Overtime cocktail is made with rum, Galliano, Arabic gum, absinth, curry, lime, egg white and nutmeg.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2024
• Those for whom there appeared to be no hope were carried to the right to a collection area where the bodies, mostly wrapped in white sheets that had red Arabic lettering on them, were laid on the ground.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024
• The face is adorned with luminous Arabic numerals and hour markers, as well as a date indicator at 3 o’clock and small seconds sub-dial at 9 o’clock.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 July 2023
• When locals, starting in the 1980s, added a dome and other Arabic features, the government did not interfere.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• There’s a Mediterranean restaurant, Safina, while Cabana 9 serves Arabic dishes, and has a shisha lounge, too.
  — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
• The complete sentence, housed in a single Arabic word, أحبّك, suffices when the world closes in and there is no room for longer declarations, for the leisure of language and its constructions.
  — Nima Hasan august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025