Sample sentences for MIDDLE EAST

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Definition

a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf (though there is no agreement on an exact to definition)

It is as likely as fair weather in southern California and unrest in the Middle East.

I was based in London then, working as Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
Although American attention has recently been riveted on the Middle East, the Pacific phase of our destiny looms larger and larger.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
It made me cringe how he didn't realize that he sounded like the goofy Middle Eastern sidekick in a bad sitcom.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
"It's kind of like the situation in the Middle East," he told the Ole Miss student newspaper.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
They sold the stuff in Turkey, or some place in the Middle East.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
The majority of my diving has been in the Middle East.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
We don't need to be sending money to the Middle East; too many of those people are mean.
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
Castro says, Jesus lived in the Middle East.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
More important, I and everyone else in the service knew that war in the Middle East was coming, whether Europe wanted it or not.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
Paul just came back from the Middle East.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
This is the greatest handicap of Muslim Middle Eastern societies today, the flaw that most bars them from modernity.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
She traveled some, in Europe and the Middle East.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
The golden warrior's voice was rich and velvety, with an exotic accent—Middle Eastern, maybe—that seemed vaguely familiar.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
At dinner, Mom and Dad were talking about politics in the Middle East.
John Green -- Paper Towns
He might have been Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, a dark-skinned Eastern European, a light-skinned black.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
With his usual flare for improvisation, Bloom contributed something else that would forever color America's perception of the Middle East.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
Middle Eastern music played on his radio, and the young Arab driver gave them a friendly smile.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
He looked as if he was of Middle Eastern origin, from Egypt or Yemen.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
You like Middle East food?
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor

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