How to Use Muslim in a Sentence

Muslim

noun
  • My mom marrying a Muslim was a change for me.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The Muslim maghrib prayer began soon after on the same blue tarp.
    — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 2024-05-05
  • Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 2024-06-28
  • When the Muslim call to prayer sounds in Tuqu, the Jews in Tekoa hear it, too.
    — Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 2024-06-01
  • Hassan, who is black and Muslim, grew up in Flint and has deep roots in the community.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2025
  • If elected, Mamdani would be the first South Asian and first Muslim to lead the city.
    — Time, 2025-06-23
  • Aqsa was raised in Kuwait by South Asian Muslim migrant worker parents.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2024-10-15
  • Which is how Sadiq Khan—liberal, left-wing, Muslim—got sucked into the vortex.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 2024-03-26
  • Not only are people scared, Rehab says, but now, no one seems to want to hear from Muslim Americans.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 2023-10-25
  • Ghalib, an immigrant from Yemen who is Muslim, leads a city that is believed to be roughly half Muslim.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 2024-09-23
  • Later, Christian crusaders built citadels along the coast that went on to be repurposed by Muslim Ottoman rulers.
    — Daniele Hamamdjian, NBC News, 2024-11-17
  • The charter explicitly states that this land—the holy land, from the river to the sea—is Muslim-owned and will be liberated through jihad.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood staged an uprising in the city of Hama.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2025-01-27
  • He'd been born in Sierra Leone, was a practicing Muslim and came to Michigan to attend college.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 2023-11-06
  • The Muslim Progressive Society helped raise enough money to send him to London to study.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-25
  • Meet Hoda and Yasmin, the two women helping Muslim Americans find love while staying true to their faith.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2025-01-16
  • The number of Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist Michiganders remained flat at around 1% each.
    — Joe Guillen, Axios, 2025-03-05
  • Soliman and his attorneys have denied any involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood or with terrorist groups.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2025
  • In 1982, the Assads put down a rebellion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2025-01-27
  • In a market setting that surprise-pops out of the set’s walls, Pi is confronted by choices as Catholic, Muslim and Hindu forces swirl to convert him.
    — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 2025-03-20
  • For the past five years, a group of 10 women – three Jewish, three Muslim, three Christian, and one Baháʼí – has been meeting monthly to listen to one another.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-10-06
  • Over 280 million Southeast Asians, about 40% of the region’s population, identify as Muslim.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Hasan, an American Muslim psychiatrist, had shown signs of growing radicalization in the months leading up to the attack, according to investigators.
    — Hanna Park, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In 2010, Rima Fakih, of Dearborn, who also did not wear hijab, became the first Muslim to win Miss USA.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In July 2024, a New York woman, Jennifer Guilbeault, was caught on camera pepper-spraying a Muslim Uber driver.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who designed the October 7th operations, in this sense bore more in common with the Fatah of old than with the Muslim Brotherhood of today.
    — Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Speakers from a number of faith traditions, including Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Baha’i and New Thought, will give presentations about their faith via Zoom.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The mosque where the food pantry operates, Masjid Al Mumineen, is familiar to Qaddoura, who became the first Muslim to be an Indiana state legislator when he was elected in 2020.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and from donors comprising the South Florida Jewish and Muslim Communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and from donors comprising the South Florida Jewish and Muslim Communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.
    — Lauren Costantino, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025

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