(Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
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Examples for "genie "
Examples for "genie "
1 He rubbed it, and in a moment the genie stood before him.
2 The genie put forth The Principles of Equity, and named the price.
3 I accepted the fate I'd summoned like the genie of a lamp.
4 When Aladdin gave these commands to the genie the sun was set.
5 The genie called the birds, and they came flying from every direction.
1 Boy and jinni stared at each other for a few long moments.
2 A jinni would offer his captor three wishes, in exchange for his release.
3 Think of what a bound jinni could do for your clan.
4 Poets also believed that they were possessed by their personal jinni .
5 He was still a jinni , one of the most powerful of his kind.
1 Perhaps Gödel's theorem is the djinn that guards the truth you seek.
2 It makes talking with the djinn who are in the field difficult.
3 We will find leisure to judge you, O ye men and djinn : 4
4 He had summoned a djinn , who carried us in the night.
5 She couldn't think what the selkies or djinn might inherently embody.
1 The skull was the vessel that he inhabited, kind of like a djinni 's bottle.
2 It is like a story, with djinni .
3 I feel as if I were like some powerful djinni giving gifts which the recipients may use without thought.
4 No, my lord, I have never met a djinni , and if I did, I would not trust it to do my bidding.
1 You could do this all day, and the jinnee never failed to hear and obey.
2 Madame said she liked to have him around, for he was more like some unobtrusive jinnee than a mere mortal.
3 Every month they drew lots, and he upon whom the lot fell gave up his daughter to the jinnee of the sea.
4 When the great jinnee of music had once more swept out of the hall, the Sphinx turned with shining eyes to the waiter:
5 Perhaps he has provoked a jinnee in that young man which will one day rise up and envelop him in a cloud of political suffocation.
6 Brown moved the lamp, and its beams fell on a rifleman who stood close beside him at attention-likea jinnee formed suddenly from empty blackness.
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