Example sentences for: beirut

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

  • In 1983 came Hezbollah's massacre of the Marines in Beirut.

  • Hezbollah officials in Beirut and Iran were expecting the arrival of a group during the same time period.

  • After the killing of the marines in Beirut, President Reagan signed National Security Directive 138, calling for a "shift . . . from passive to active defense measures" and reprogramming or adding new resources to effect the shift.

  • Ajami begins his book with a bang: the suicide of Khalil Hawi, a Lebanese poet who shot himself on the day in 1982 when Israel invaded Beirut.

  • Jarrah's pre-Afghanistan interest in aviation also is confirmed by a January 22, 1999, email recovered after the September 11,2001, attacks, in which Jarrah told a friend from Beirut that he might "come next year and . . . have something to tell about airplanes."


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