Example sentences for: sheikh

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

  • Late May brought reports of a possible hostage plot against Americans abroad to force the release of prisoners, including Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh," who was serving a life sentence for his role in the 1993 plot to blow up sites in New York City.

  • Another late opportunity was presented by a confluence of information regarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed received by the intelligence community in the summer of 2001.

  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-Yousef 's uncle, then located in Qatar-was a fellow plotter of Yousef 's in the Manila air plot and had also wired him some money prior to the Trade Center bombing.

  • In July, the same source was shown a series of photographs and identified a photograph of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the Khaled he had previously discussed.

  • 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.


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