Persian Examples

[ˈpɜː.ʒən]

[ˈpɝːʒən]

[-ɜː(r)ʒən]

Examples of Persian in a Sentence

Examples of Persian
1. Haman can find no gust in all the sensualities of the Persian Court, because a poor despicable Jew denies his abaisance.
2. She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
3. The cafe serves a Moroccan breakfast (orange juice, yogurt, sweet crepes, honey and jam; 100 dirhams), and the Museum of Islamic Art offers wrought Persian astrolabes, Syrian copperwork and shimmering Moroccan textiles.
4. Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter, collaborates here with Hafez Modirzadeh, an Iranian-American saxophonist, playing an improvised music that incorporates traditional elements of Iraqi maqam and Persian dastgah.
5. Her living room had a lush Persian-style decor.
6. But the BBC’s Persian channel has been cast as the main threat, partly, BBC officials say, because Britain’s colonial past has earned it a special place in Iran’s official demonography.
7. For a counterpoint to its molar-tingling sweetness, you might try a glass of doogh, the Persian yogurt drink, bracingly tart with a high note of dill.
Examples of Persians
1. Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.