Example Sentences

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The leaders of Senegal’s influential Muslim brotherhoods have urged protesters to show restraint in the days ahead.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2021

The leaders of Senegal’s influential Muslim brotherhoods on Sunday urged protesters to show restraint in the days ahead.

From Washington Times • Mar. 8, 2021

Jia Zhangke takes an empathetic look at criminal brotherhoods in China in his new gangster film Ash Is Purest White.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2019

How much longer, as an audience, do we have to put up with these banal alphabet-soup brotherhoods of corruption, whose ethics are so much worse than any sprinter’s or marathoner’s?

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2016

There were groceries and herbal shops, clothing shops and laundries, halls that housed the brotherhoods or the district associations or the offices of family clans.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep