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US
/ˈsuni/
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NOUN
- one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam
- a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad
How To Use Sunni In A Sentence
- The fans certainly looked like they didn't have a care in the world as they lay in their hundreds sunning themselves on the grassy slopes surrounding the stadium in the hours before the game.
- Religion: Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) - 94 %; Coptic Christian and other - 6 %.
- Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright? Moby Dick, or, the whale
- To all you McCain patsies, by this time next year your children or grandchildren could be sunning and funning in the beautiful and friendly country of IRAN. Obama beats back criticism over head of VP search
- There is no authority on the implied licence argument and it may be criticised that it runs counter to the guidance of the House of Lords in the case of Sunningwell that a tolerated use may be as of right.
- Six bloody hundred and twenty-bleeding-eight people sunning themselves in Athens at our expense!
- I loved the endless hours I spent splashing in streams, eating blackberries off the bush, catching trout, walking the woods, sunning on rocks, listening to banjos and dulcimers.
- This reminds us how al-Qaida was always only one of scores of radical groups that together constituted the dynamic, varied and evolving phenomenon of Sunni Muslim violent extremism.
- The security forces have had to recruit and naturalise foreign Sunni Muslims – some of whom are decried as mercenaries – to make up the numbers. Bahrain: No conflict. Plenty of interest | Editorial
- The 3, 000 lives killed heinously, and his mis-reading of Islam confound Shia and Sunni.