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
• The aircraft will fly in the Persian Gulf region via Qatar and end their journey in Egypt.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
• 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
• Prices have surged more than 20% this month as fighting has sharply escalated in the Persian Gulf.
  — Spencer Kimball,justina Lee, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
• Prices have surged around 20% this month as fighting has sharply escalated in the Persian Gulf.
  — Sean Conlon,chloe Taylor,lee Ying Shan,ananya Chetia, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
• 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
• Prices have rallied more than 16% this month as fighting has sharply escalated in the Persian Gulf.
  — Spencer Kimball,justina Lee, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
• 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
• One is a higher flow of oil and gas through the Persian Gulf, and the other is a resumption of Russian diesel exports.
  — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026
• Countries that were particularly reliant on Persian Gulf oil have been spurred to action.
  — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
• Economic warfare will be met by a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf to the blockade perimeter.
  — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
• Satellite view of Kharg Island, located in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Kharg Island, located in the Persian Gulf, is a critical hub for Iran’s oil exports.
  — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
• 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
• Is this organization, much of whose funding is not transparent and comes from member states in the Persian Gulf, designed to make peace, or make money?
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026