How to Use Arab in a Sentence

Arab

noun
Definition of Arabnext
  • The Arab Spring forced Saleh out of office in 2012, even as the Houthis expanded their hold over the north.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The age of mass protest ushered in by the Arab Spring is hardly over, but the record of failures, setbacks, and cataclysms has been dispiriting.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Alongside Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the cities continue to rotate through the top four spots.
    — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2023
  • The president’s poll numbers among Arab Americans have, in a short period of time, dropped like a stone.
    — Hafiz Rashid, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Tunisia had previously been described as the only democracy to have emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring movement.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 July 2023
  • Rare street protests have broken out in Bahrain as a mass hunger strike enters its fifth week, activists say, in a faint echo of the uprising that swept the Gulf kingdom starting in 2011, during the Arab Spring.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates reopened their embassies in Damascus.
    — Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Michigan is home to several hundred thousand Arab Americans, most of whom live in the Detroit area.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The prisoner exchange on neutral grounds in the United Arab Emirates took place last December.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Back in March, the designer unveiled a megayacht intended to be the official flagship of the United Arab Emirates.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The deluge of water triggered the question: Was this disaster caused by the United Arab Emirates’ cloud-seeding program?
    — Cnn Com Wire Service, Orange County Register, 17 Apr. 2024
  • This was after the Arab Spring and the new government in Morocco was controlled by the Islamist party, and had a very conservative outlook.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But, sandwiched between the two superpowers, the United Arab Emirates is beginning to punch above its weight.
    — TIME, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The civilian vessel had departed Dubai and was traveling to the United Arab Emirates when a dozen fast-attack craft surrounded it.
    — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But no business license is registered under the company’s name in the United Arab Emirates.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Only a few years ago, plenty of citizens of the United Arab Emirates were willing to speak warmly about their country’s budding ties with Israel.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
  • After the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, his family’s lumber plant outside Cairo had suffered.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Cloud-seeding, a process that adds crystals to clouds to prompt them to create rain, is already used in nations such as the United Arab Emirates to fight dry conditions and in Pakistan to mitigate smog.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Climate advocates were concerned that the United Arab Emirates' ties to the fossil fuel industry would impact the outcome of the summit.
    — Stephanie Ebbs, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Vardi's vast experience has taught her that the first to suffer from anti-democratic acts are those at the bottom of the Israeli food chain: Arabs, refugees, patients from deprived backgrounds.
    — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Some countries, including Japan and the United Arab Emirates, have set out crypto regulations, but the size of these markets is relatively small and the scope of the rules is limited.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • It was rumored to have played a part in the Arab Spring, allowing dissidents to view tweets without having to create a Twitter account and risk compromising their anonymity.
    — Zoë Schiffer, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
  • About 1,800 years ago, someone in the United Arab Emirates filled a pottery jar with a collection of treasures: several gold Roman coins, some local bronze currency and a bronze bracelet.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
  • British regulators announced a review into whether the bid, backed mostly by funds from the United Arab Emirates, could result in adverse foreign influence over the British press.
    — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Uber spokesperson Arab did not immediately respond to questions about concerns raised by drivers about pay.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In some countries, like Australia and the United Arab Emirates, more workers are entering the fossil fuel industry than exiting it, the report found.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • One person suffered multiple gunshot wounds Thursday night during a shooting in Arab.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And in Tunisia, once the only democratic success story of the Arab Spring rebellions, the president is steering the state toward increasing autocracy.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Healy was criticised for kissing a male fan at a 2019 concert in the United Arab Emirates, which also has laws against homosexual acts, media reported.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • The Arab Cinema Center – which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – is an umbrella group that serves as a catalyst for the Arab industry at top festivals and film markets around the world.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024

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