How to Use mullah in a Sentence

mullah

noun

• None of that seemed to give the mullahs in power much of a boost.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• Once the mullah fell to the ground, another person shot him four times in the chest.
  — WSJ, 26 Sep. 2021
• The mullahs still rule in Iran, and Syria lies in tatters.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• To really save some mullah, do what the kids do these days, and have a pregame at home.
  — Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2018
• The ones then isolated will be the mullahs in Iran and their proxies.
  — TIME, 20 Feb. 2024
• This episode of What’s Ahead explains why the mullahs’ getting the bomb would be a disaster for the world.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
• The mullahs who ruled in Iran took over during Carter-Mondale.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 2 Oct. 2024
• The mullah crouched beside him and read a prayer, asking for God to show mercy on his soul.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The mullahs of Iran have marked a former U.S. official for death and are willing to spend six figures to see the plan through.
  — The Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
• That’s a welcome message aimed at deterring the mullahs in Tehran and their agents.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• The mullah, his feet in shiny leather loafers, hopped out of the vehicle, climbed onto the cargo bed and affixed the flag to the antenna.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Obama gave millions of dollars in cash on pallets to Iran to sweeten the mullahs.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• The mullahs have thrown billions of dollars at the development of nuclear weapons in good times and bad.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• This clear and present danger will concentrate the mullahs’ minds, but only for a limited time.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Apr. 2025
• The mullahs in Tehran will be overjoyed and see signs of another U.S. President’s weakness.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• The soldiers, who lived nearby and knew the villagers well, separated the mullahs and teachers and those with education from the group.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• Iran’s politicians, military men and mullahs then came together to take down the premier.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Some children attend a madrasa, or Islamic school, run by a mullah at a tiny mosque in a nearby settlement.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• Hopefully, under those circumstances, the idea of buying peace at home by making peace abroad would appeal to the mullahs.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• And if war comes, the mullahs are ready to trap America in another Middle Eastern quagmire.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• The terrorist group’s benefactors in places like Qatar are paring back their tacit support for it and, by extension, the mullahs in Tehran.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025
• Ambassadors and chief justices can also donate with ease, as may rabbis (though not swamis or mullahs).
  — Mark Vanhoenacker, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
• Qasem Soleimani while minimizing the actions of the courageous Iranians who oppose the mullahs.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Jan. 2020
• Over the past 18 months, thousands have taken to the street to demand reforms; the mullahs have responded with lethal force, torture, and public executions.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The mullahs would love to get their hands on the West Bank, which has long been a territory that Israel and its allies consider to be strategically vital.
  — Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
• Through these proxies, the mullahs became the kingmakers of Iraq’s factious politics.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
• Millions of us fled the country in the aftermath in order to fight back and pursue the democratic future that so many people envisioned before the mullahs took over.
  — Nasser Sharif, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
• But temptations of power proved too much as the mullahs and their praetorian guard indulged their taste for luxury.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Tehran’s mullahs cannot survive a sustained oil price of $60 a barrel with practically no export revenue.
  — Nawaf E. Obaid, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• But once Iran goes nuclear, the notion that the mullahs would moderate if only Americans tread gently will no longer resonate.
  — Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2021