Example sentences for: harem

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

  • Last week, the New York Times accused Chase-Riboud herself of pinching several paragraphs from a nonfiction work for her 1986 book, Valide: A Novel of the Harem . Chase-Riboud acknowledged her debt to the previously published work, but claimed that she had done nothing wrong because the book was a "reference" and her novel was intended to be a "seamless narrative using both documents and fiction."

  • As she and Clinton passed each other, Lewinsky, who was wearing colorful harem pants, according to the publication, "turned her butt toward him, pulled out the waist-band--'and showed him I was wearing thong panties.

  • Of several hundred women in the emperor’s harem, his only love was the now legendary Mumtaz-Mahal (“Exalted of the Palace”), by whom he had 14 children.

  • The toughest male gorillas get a whole harem of females to themselves, and the wimpiest get zilch.

  • It was converted into a church in the sixth century a.d. and was used as a harem building during Ottoman times.


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