How to Use Persian in a Sentence

Persian

noun

• Trump is set to have three days of summits among Persian Gulf rulers.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 14 May 2025
• It has long been known as the Persian Gulf and is still called that in much of the world.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 3 Feb. 2025
• In the piece, called Persian Moon, the face is crying tears of blood.
  — Sydney Carruth, AZCentral.com, 2 July 2023
• On our way to the airport, the sun shone gracefully above the Persian Gulf.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2024
• The wallpaper in the room is Soane Britain and the rug is antique Persian.
  — Troy J. McMullen, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
• Then there is the Persian Gulf that helped pearls rain and reign in Paris throughout the period.
  — Lily Templeton, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
• Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is a holy holiday that takes place on the spring equinox each March.
  — Liz Regalia, Parents, 11 Apr. 2025
• Spring cleaning has roots in Nowruz, or Persian New Year, which lands on the first day of the season.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
• Civilian airports have been closed in Iran and flights from the Persian Gulf were diverted.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
• There is one thing that unites most Iranians, however — pride over the Persian Gulf.
  — Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
• The sailor accumulated at least four years of sea time and worked on numerous ships in the Persian Gulf.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2024
• The move is in response to the harassment of oil tankers by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2023
• The shelter found ideal adopters for each Persian among the hundreds of applications and expects to have all the cats in their new homes by the end of the week.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
• Iran was once Persia, and the gulf has been called the Persian Gulf since the 16th Century.
  — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025
• On one white-sand beach, the waves of the Persian Gulf lapped at the shore as grinning clients braced themselves before plunging into tubs of ice water.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• Some 20% of the world’s oil passes through the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the wider world.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Around 14 people were injured when the plane hit severe turbulence as the aircraft approached the Persian Gulf.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
• But the signs on the stores — even the Tim Hortons — are written in Persian, and that’s also the language that every character speaks.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025
• As the water of the Persian Gulf receded from the Iranian coastline, a group of researchers found some of these blobs stuck to the rocky surface.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 July 2024
• Nearly 12 percent of global trade passes through the Red Sea, as well as a prodigious amount of oil from the Persian Gulf.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
• The interactions of rivers, tides, and sediment at the head of the Persian Gulf created small canals and date groves, which allowed water to flow through the terrain.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2025
• Qatar, a gas-rich peninsula in the Persian Gulf, has mediated talks between Israel and Hamas since the start of the conflict.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• The 3-year-old exotic shorthair Persian belongs to Falcons long snapper George Carlson.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• Before oil transformed the Persian Gulf, pearls and dates were its main exports, the latter to India, Europe, and the United States.
  — Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
• Emily Simpson invited everyone to her home for a celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
• The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, is recognized as one of the world's most important oil chokepoints.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
• India, which traditionally received most of its oil from the Persian Gulf, has exponentially increased cheap Russian crude since Moscow was locked out of Europe’s energy markets.
  — Daniel Depetris, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
• These range from Qurans from several Islamic regions to a pro-British, World War II propaganda poster printed in Persian with Middle Eastern drawings.
  — Russ Wiles, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2025
• When completed, the delivery of the HIMARS to Manama will augment an already impressive array of multiple rocket launch systems in the military arsenals of the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• However, Ankara has now even larger ambitions, like the Development Road project, a major $17-20 billion infrastructure corridor linking Iraq’s Basra Port (on the Persian Gulf) to Turkey’s border and then onward into Europe.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025