How to Use Druze in a Sentence

Druze

noun
  • He is taken in by Omar (17) and his family, who are from the Druze faith.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
  • So far, with the Druze, those efforts have been unsuccessful.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Iran’s image improved the most among Druze (nine points), followed by Christians (five points) and Sunnis (four points).
    — Maryclare Roche, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2024
  • Within Syria, many Druze live in the south of the country, parts of which Israel declared a buffer zone after Assad’s fall.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The body was identified as Tiran Fero, a member of the Druze Arabic-speaking minority and a senior in high school.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The Druze are an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam.
    — Maayan Lubell, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
  • In addition to the 12 deaths, at least 44 people were injured in the attack that has rocked the town’s Syrian Druze community.
    — Zeena Saifi, CNN, 28 July 2024
  • While some Druze chose to align themselves with either side of the civil conflict, most have avoided doing so, and many have refused to enlist in Assad’s army.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Attitudes are hardening among the Druze, who have mostly refused to hand over their heavy weapons to Damascus.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
  • About a million-strong, the global Druze community is largely spread across Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Hochstein expressed concern about the situation to Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.
    — Barak Ravid, Axios, 27 July 2024
  • Israel appears to be exploiting the conflict to carve out a de facto zone of control in southern Syria, where the Druze are concentrated.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
  • The group included Jewish, Druze, Muslim and Christian children.
    — Amelie Botbol, Sun Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Beit Jann’s residents are Druze, an Arab religious minority found across the Levant whose roots here date back centuries.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
  • But the government has struggled to extend its authority to Suwayda, where there have been clashes between Druze and Sunni groups.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
  • The move has been met with controversy as a number of Syrian Druze have protested the Israeli overture and occupation.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Shara has promised to protect Syria’s minorities, but some members of the Alawite, Druze, and other communities are not convinced.
    — Natasha Hall, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2025
  • Netanyahu criticized the settler violence, as well as unrelated protests by Druze Arabs in the Golan Heights that turned violent.
    — Isabel Debre, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • The soccer field in the majority Druze town is a scene of shocking violence and the most devastating loss of life in the north since Hezbollah entered the war on behalf of the terrorist entity Hamas on Oct. 7.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 27 July 2024
  • Sunni dominance has inflicted deep scars on the region, and minorities like the Alawites, as well as Christians, Druze and Yazidis, all have reasons to fear the rise of extremist governance.
    — Marin Scott, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Israel is trying to bolster its ties with Syria’s Druze community and has used the power vacuum to occupy some 155 square miles of Syrian land.
    — Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The study found that Christians and Druze became genetically isolated following the arrival of Islam.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Saturday's strike on Majdal Shams killed at least 12 people, most of them children and teenagers belonging to the minority Druze community.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 July 2024
  • The city is mostly populated by Druze, members of a religious minority that largely avoided getting caught up in the civil war, and which the government treats gingerly.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Syria’s twenty-three million people include multiple Muslim sects, Christians, Druze, and Kurds.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Israeli officials also urged the Syrian government to prevent harm to the Druze community.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Early on in Syria’s civil war, Israel provided humanitarian aid to Druze on the Syrian side of the border, including food and clothing.
    — Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The Druze play vital roles in political and military institutions in neighboring Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon.
    — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2025
  • Military service is mandatory for all Jewish citizens and for male Druze and Circassian citizens of Israel.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Israel says some of its actions are intended to protect minority groups, particularly the Druze, who are potential allies.
    — Shira Efron, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2025

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