Example sentences for: sheiks

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

  • The marble that Michelangelo chose for his Moses and Pietà is now hewn, at $3,000 a cubic meter, for replicas at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, tombstones in the Los Angeles Forest Lawn cemetery, and countless homes of oil-rich sheiks.

  • They remain some of the most evocative images of the 1970s, those film clips of sheiks clad in flowing robes and luxuriant headdresses, striding confidently from hotel lobbies into waiting limousines, secure in the knowledge that in controlling two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, they controlled the lifeblood of the industrialized world.

  • Announcing that he has no moral problem stealing from Saddam what Saddam has stolen from the sheiks, he joins with Barlow, Barlow's buddy Vig (skinny Spike Jonze, director of the upcoming Being John

  • I think in your den in Oslo, surrounded by sheiks requested by your mother,

  • The cover story explains why Jerusalem could be the tripwire for World War III and profiles the delusional extremists who could ignite it: Jewish fanatics who want to retake the Temple Mount by force, Christian apocalypse-awaiters who want to see the temple rebuilt, and seething sheiks who will wage war before ceding authority over the Dome of the Rock.


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