How to Use Azerbaijani in a Sentence

Azerbaijani

noun

• An Azerbaijani duet sung in Russian has racked up millions of plays from listeners who may never learn the artists’ names.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
• The current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is of Azerbaijani descent.
  — Shukriya Bradost, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2026
• The Azerbaijani Embassy was hit by debris from an Iskander missile.
  — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
• Life had been unbearable for months under an Azerbaijani blockade, said his brother, Vova.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Roughly six miles to the west lies Nakhchivan, a landlocked Azerbaijani exclave that Baku has long dreamed of connecting to its mainland.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• This ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh – first through hunger, then by force of arms – completed the Azerbaijani victory.
  — Ronald Suny, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
• Just as the Azerbaijani leadership does, the men who run Georgia understand Moscow.
  — Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
• All of this signals that the Azerbaijani leader is now determined to keep Moscow out of any new regional settlement.
  — Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
• Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin and the Azerbaijani foreign ministry for further comment.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
• At the same time, Azerbaijani officials have advocated for talks with a different format and agenda purely on their country’s terms.
  — Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
• Thirty-eight people died, while 29 survived with injuries, Azerbaijani officials said.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
• He was first approached by a man claiming to be an Azerbaijani living in Dubai, who recruited him for espionage activities.
  — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
• Just ahead of last month’s offensive, the Azerbaijani defense ministry announced the army conducted a missile test of Barak-8.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
• The documentary tells the story of Saeid Mollaei, who was born in Tehran to ethnic Azerbaijani parents.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
• Azerbaijani forces took over Nagorno-Karabakh, and over 100,000 Armenians were forced to flee.
  — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Lebanon’s main Armenian party held a demonstration in front of the Azerbaijani Embassy that turned violent.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The Baku dealership, for example, has sent an Azerbaijani carpet featuring the company’s bull logo.
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
• Despite these efforts, Armenian and Azerbaijani officials were unable to reach a final peace agreement.
  — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Shusha’s population had been majority Azerbaijani at the end of the Soviet era but now all the Azerbaijanis had fled.
  — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
• Back then, Azerbaijani forces repurposed agricultural biplanes into decoy drones.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
• The Pahlavi monarchy marked a rupture, banning the Azerbaijani language and curtailing local autonomy.
  — Shukriya Bradost, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2026
• Towns on the region’s fertile lowlands, once inhabited by Azerbaijani farmers and traders, were abandoned, then they were looted, landmined and turned into military buffer zones.
  — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
• Shusha’s landmark Ghazanchetsots Cathedral—known as the White Church for its gleaming limestone walls—was struck by Azerbaijani missiles.
  — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
• Little over a week before the Iran war began, Azerbaijani military officials assessed the combat preparedness of the country’s air defense forces.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• The primary event in the life of any young Azerbaijani woman, after all, is undoubtedly her wedding and only that wedding can bestow the right to make changes, even if Allah does not approve of them.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
• Two goals to the good after 17 minutes, the Portuguese imploded as the visitors became the first Azerbaijani club to win a match in the league phase/group phase of the competition.
  — Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• At that time, Azerbaijan launched a military operation against Armenia, where Azerbaijani forces took over a part of Nagorno-Karabakh.
  — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Three former Artsakh presidents and several other high-level officials were arrested and remain in Azerbaijani jails.
  — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
• Since the events in the autumn of 2023, Armenian and Azerbaijani officials have held numerous discussions on how to end the conflict.
  — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• The ethnic minorities—Kurdish, Baluchi, Azerbaijani, and others—who want a decentralized state and more autonomy?
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2026