How to Use Muslim in a Sentence
Muslim
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The Muslim maghrib prayer began soon after on the same blue tarp.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024
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Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
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When the Muslim call to prayer sounds in Tuqu, the Jews in Tekoa hear it, too.
—Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024
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Hassan, who is black and Muslim, grew up in Flint and has deep roots in the community.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2025
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There are also the bean pies that celebrate the Black Muslim movement.
—Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
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If elected, Mamdani would be the first South Asian and first Muslim to lead the city.
—Time, 23 June 2025
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Aqsa was raised in Kuwait by South Asian Muslim migrant worker parents.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
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Which is how Sadiq Khan—liberal, left-wing, Muslim—got sucked into the vortex.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
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Not only are people scared, Rehab says, but now, no one seems to want to hear from Muslim Americans.
—Mark Morales, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
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Ghalib, an immigrant from Yemen who is Muslim, leads a city that is believed to be roughly half Muslim.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024
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Hamoudi’s sister is a devout Muslim and a supporter of Hezbollah.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Later, Christian crusaders built citadels along the coast that went on to be repurposed by Muslim Ottoman rulers.
—Daniele Hamamdjian, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024
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The charter explicitly states that this land—the holy land, from the river to the sea—is Muslim-owned and will be liberated through jihad.
—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Yassin, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was a figure of unlikely charisma.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
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He'd been born in Sierra Leone, was a practicing Muslim and came to Michigan to attend college.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
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In 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood staged an uprising in the city of Hama.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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The Muslim Progressive Society helped raise enough money to send him to London to study.
—Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
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Starmer has also taken some criticism from Muslim Labour supporters over being slow to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 2 July 2024
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The entire six-member council in Hamtramck is Muslim, four of them immigrants from Bangladesh.
—Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2021
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And the Jewish community has been impacted, but the Muslim and people of Arab origin as well.
—ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
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In videos shared online, soldiers can be seen singing in Hebrew using a mosque's loudspeaker system, usually used for the Muslim call to prayer.
—Hala Gorani, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
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Many of the posts contained hateful messages about Muslim Americans, the same type of bigotry O'Reilly had fought against.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2025
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Meet Hoda and Yasmin, the two women helping Muslim Americans find love while staying true to their faith.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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As Sawyer enters the assembly hall with hundreds of period panties in hand, Muslim, Christian and secular girls cheer for her.
—Diane Farr, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
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The number of Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist Michiganders remained flat at around 1% each.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
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Soliman and his attorneys have denied any involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood or with terrorist groups.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2025
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In 1982, the Assads put down a rebellion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
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In a market setting that surprise-pops out of the set’s walls, Pi is confronted by choices as Catholic, Muslim and Hindu forces swirl to convert him.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
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Neighboring Malaysia, where two thirds of the population identify as Muslim, is another option.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
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Hamas, which grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, was founded in the late 1980s and is dedicated to resisting the Israeli state.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
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