dervish|dervishes in English

noun

[der·vish || 'dɜːvɪʃ]

member of a Muslim ascetic order; one that is frenetic

Use "dervish|dervishes" in a sentence

1. Even a whirling dervish.

2. Some of them were whirling round like dervishes.

3. 2 I have told you I am half a dervish.

4. In the end, stories move like whirling dervishes, drawing circles beyond circles.

5. 15 He threw himself around the stage like a whirling dervish.

6. 6 Auguste was a dervish in the centre of a whirlpool.

7. 8 He a whirling dervish of ideas who inspires hope and fear.

8. Sufism is a spiritual practice associated with the whirling dervishes and the poet Rumi.

9. 1 Brian was whirling like a dervish, slapping at the mosquitoes and moaning.

10. 18 Finally, lightning and thunder, rain and stormaltogether and executed a mad dervish dance.

11. The Turks say... that, upon the smoke, dervishes draw ecstasy, soldiers courage, and others...

12. 13 First of all, you cut costs like a dervish - just to stay solvent.

13. Brian was whirling like a dervish, slapping at the mosquitoes and moaning.

14. 7 He is a whirling dervish of ideas who inspires hope and fear.

15. Even among bands of Sufi mystics, such as the dervishes, Celibacy was exceptional (see Sufism)

16. 19 I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

17. 11 Otherwise I will be so desperate like a dervish losing the belief to Allah.

18. 16 Trepolov had some sense of decency and didn't go attacking the ball like some damned dervish.

19. 14 But then his uncle Dervish a promise of help, and things look like they might improve.

20. 3 Soon he is digging like a whirling dervish, the impressive show ending with another frantic leap.

21. 9 She is a dervish of unfocused energy, an accident about to happen ( jane Gross ).

22. 5 We Israelites, the wandering heirs Of a bewildered dervish, are taught distrust in prayer.

23. The majority of Albanians are Muslims, but there are some followers of the Bektashi dervish religion, Roman Catholics

24. 12 The Hedgehog was actually a group of whirling dervish sort of bombs fired ahead of the attacking ship.

25. 21 It certainly doesn't hurt that Liverpool also picked up the whirling dervish otherwise known as Luis Suarez.