Examples of 'dervish' in a sentence
Meaning of "dervish"
A dervish is a member of a Muslim religious group known for their extreme poverty and austerity
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- A member of a Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity of mendicant friars.
- A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), the Dhulbahante anti-colonial polity geographically corresponding with Khaatumo.
- An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.
- One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
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Just like the dervish in the novel.
You are squirling around like an evil dervish.
It swirls like a dervish picking up leaves of doubt.
Or that story about the dervish that.
The dervish and the full moon.
You are the grand old dervish yourself.
The dervish says that too.
While whirling like a dervish in her grave.
The killer approached him disguised as a dervish.
Sure the dervish knows everything.
This guy is a whirling dervish out there.
That dervish saw the world and denounced it.
He left his kingship and became a dervish.
The next level above dervish is that of baba.
But instead of politics he chose to be a dervish.
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You can not buy dervish with gold.
To the return of the little dervish.
Or he can whirl him like a dervish until he flies apart.
Sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.
You are a whirling dervish out there.
The dervish then slams his door on the group.
And you are the whirling dervish.
Within two hours the dervish forces were in flight.
Dervish and water salesman.
It supposed to be an old dervish lodge here.
A dervish passed a house where two little girls were playing.
So you can come in and be a whirling dervish of creativity.
Keep dervish on gunpoint.
One of them watched the dervish with disdain.
The dervish asked me.
She tends to be a whirling dervish sort.
This is why dervish is a dervish.
The woman is a whirling dervish.
I can put a dervish in a whirl.
Lf you can not find her ask the dervish.
Therefore the bliss of the dervish is understood by very few.
An so you will remain a dervish.
A growing dervish of desire.
Like every great dervish.
Central dervish lodges.
I want to take my revenge on a dervish.
At these words the dervish shut the door in their faces.
Even a whirling dervish.
The dervish did it.
I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.
The dervish returns the gifts of society with the gift of baraka.
Danced like a dervish.
Dervish arrives and says he has a matter to discuss with the sultan.
Like a whirling dervish.
They considered it their dervish duty to spread knowledge among the common people.
