Persian Gulf
an arm of the Arabian Sea, between SW Iran and Arabia. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- Also called Arabian Gulf.
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How to use Persian Gulf in a sentence
Now, the Persian Gulf country is the latest to raise doubts about the vaccine’s effectiveness.
Covid-19 live updates: CDC director urges teens to get vaccinated | Katerina Ang, Erin Cunningham, Paulina Firozi, Hannah Knowles | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostOnce when flying to Oman, I was wakened in my window seat by the sheer brightness of the flares shooting up from the Persian Gulf oil rigs below.
Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ | Mary Winston Nicklin | April 1, 2021 | Washington PostAs conflict in the Persian Gulf intensified in 1990, the president continued with a vacation to the family haven of Kennebunkport, Maine.
Why Ted Cruz should’ve known this was a bad idea | Aaron Blake | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostAnd the win was the puniest of the conflagrations, the Persian Gulf War.
The U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been dispatched to the Persian Gulf.
A steady stream of financiers from wealthy Persian Gulf nations arrives at Turkish border towns such as Reyhanli.
The Persian Gulf states, which adored the coup, quickly offered Egypt far more money than the U.S. could have withheld.
Saudi Arabia and some of the Persian Gulf states interests in Syria that arguably render the idea of negotiations unattractive.
For they seem to reckon it either together with the gulfs, or together with the Carmanian coast within the Persian Gulf.
The passage across the mouth of the Persian Gulf does not occupy more than one day.
He crossed many rivers, which flow through the country and discharge themselves into the Persian Gulf.
There are also indications that they possessed some knowledge of navigation and traded on the Persian Gulf.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieProbably these rivers then flowed separately into the Persian Gulf.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George Wells
British Dictionary definitions for Persian Gulf
a shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia: linked with the Arabian Sea by the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman; important for the oilfields on its shores. Area: 233 000 sq km (90 000 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Persian Gulf
Arm of the Indian Ocean between Arabia and Iran.
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