khalifa

Also kha·lif

[kuh-lee-fuh]

noun

1. a variant of caliph.

Example Sentences

I couldn’t tell what was going through her mind when she watched Johnson and McCarrol try to get the Rivoli’s attention by parachuting off the top of the nearby CN Tower, once the tallest building in the world until Dubai bested it with the Burj Khalifa.

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Hotel design was added to the portfolio with the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010.

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The music still puts catchy vocal hooks over chunky guitar fuzz, though the LP also includes a laid-back rap-rock collab with Wiz Khalifa and a pretty credible country tune in the wistful “Deserve You.”

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Fifteen-year-old Yassin Khalifa was struck by lightning this week while sheltering under a tree during a sudden thunderstorm in Central Park’s East Meadow.

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Khalifa told WABC-TV that he had leaned against the tree to ride out the storm, “which in hindsight might not have been the best idea.”

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