Example sentences for: abdel

How can you use “abdel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The arrests of Salameh, Abouhalima, and Ayyad led the FBI to the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, where a central figure was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an extremist Sunni Muslim cleric who had moved to the United States from Egypt in 1990.

  • Many Arabs would rather relive the glory days of the 1956 Suez crisis, when the great hero of Arab nationalism, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, withstood an invasion by Britain, France, and Israel.

  • Led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, they drove Farouk into exile and nationalized the Suez Canal.

  • After being in and out of Egyptian prisons during the 1980s, Abdel Rahman found refuge in the United States.

  • (FISA hearings, to cite one example, approved the surveillance used in the Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman investigation.)


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