Example sentences for: mullahs

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

  • That scandal, you may remember, featured the elder Bush secretly flying not to Houston but to Paris in October 1980 to cut a deal with the Iranian mullahs so that the American hostages would not be released before Election Day--thus, according to the theory, ensuring Ronald Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter.

  • And who can forget the hostages in Iran, held captive by mullahs who denounced America as a "great Satan"?

  • Best-case scenario: popular unrest with the mullahs grows, leading to a middle-class democratic revolution.

  • Frustrated young Iranians challenge the mullahs to allow more democracy, and the men sport goatees to identify themselves with reform.

  • An article welcomes Iranian President Mohammed Khatami's conciliatory comments but notes that it's still anti-American mullahs who really control Iran's military and government.


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