How to Use Sunni in a Sentence

Sunni

noun

• Some Sunni Muslims tried to help their neighbors who were unable to sneak out.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
• The region where the attack took place is known for conflict between Sunni and Shia sects of Islam.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 4 May 2023
• As a Sunni Islamist group, Hamas has had an even looser relationship with Iran.
  — Joost Hiltermann, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
• Many of them fear the possibility that Sunni Islamist extremists will take over.
  — Sarah El Deeb and Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
• Though a small number of Uyghur people are Christian, most practice Sunni Islam.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• Furthermore, the Sunni states roundabout would welcome any chance to disrupt Iran’s hegemony.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• Yet, his courtship of Sunni elites merely created the illusion that Assad’s regime was inclusive.
  — Sefa Secen / Made By History, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
• The Taliban also insists that the Sunni Hanafi school of thought should form the legal basis for the negotiations.
  — Ehsanullah Amiri, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
• Large earthen berms force vehicles to swerve in a zigzag; at one checkpoint, an aging battle tank sits at the ready, its cannon pointing at surrounding Sunni Bedouin towns.
  — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2025
• However, for Destiny, Sunni's now frenemy and her partner's ex, the news is awkward and complicated.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• Ten years ago, the northern-Iraq city of Mosul fell to a Sunni jihadist insurgent group, after the Iraqi army collapsed and then vanished.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
• Officer Masood Syed, a Sunni Muslim who had been suspended for refusing to trim his one-inch beard to 1 mm.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Syria’s Sunni Islamist authorities have since sought to calm the situation and restore order, but regaining trust will not be easy.
  — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2025
• That’s reasserted the role the kingdom long has perceived itself as having — being the leader of the Sunni Muslim world and a dominant force in the Middle East.
  — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
• Yazid, having subjected the living descendants of the Prophet Muhammad to days of heat and thirst, slaughtered them in a massacre that traumatized Sunni and Shiite alike.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• For example, the president of Lebanon is designated to be Christian, the prime minister Sunni, and the speaker of parliament Shiite.
  — Maryclare Roche, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2024
• Jerry Grayson/Helifilms Australia PTY Ltd/Getty Guest speakers included musician Irvin Mayfield, poet Sunni Patterson, councilman Oliver Thomas, and former mayor Marc Morial.
  — Janee Bolden, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025