Isfahan is an English word with synonyms like city or metropolis. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Isfahan in a sentence
Isfahan meaning
- A city in Iran, the seat of Isfahan County's Central District and the capital of Isfahan Province, the third largest city of Iran; the former capital of Iran, from 1598–1736.
- A county of Iran, around the city.
- A province of Iran.
Synonyms of Isfahan
Using Isfahan
- The main meaning on this page is: A city in Iran, the seat of Isfahan County's Central District and the capital of Isfahan Province, the third largest city of Iran; the former capital of Iran, from 1598–1736. | A county of Iran, around the city. | A province of Iran.
- Useful related words include: esfahan, aspadana, city, metropolis.
- In the example corpus, isfahan often appears in combinations such as: in isfahan, of isfahan, isfahan and.
Context around Isfahan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Isfahan
- In this selection, "isfahan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, round, ahvaz, tehran, iran, feb and aug stand out and add context to how "isfahan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include airbase in isfahan province and base in isfahan the air. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "isfahan" sits close to words such as abrasion, abscess and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with isfahan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An Iranian technician at the uranium conversion facility just outside the city of Isfahan in 2007. (16 words)
Similar gatherings were also reported in the central city of Isfahan and the southern city of Shiraz. (17 words)
We have no (nuclear) power plant in Isfahan to install 100 cameras there,” the nuclear chief stated. (17 words)
Not only, the big shift in my artwork came from the realization, after having lived in Zurich for four months, that I'm sometimes walking over a bridge over the Limmat in Zurich, but in my spirit, I'm crossing a bridge in my hometown Isfahan. (46 words)
An aerial image of clusters of buildings and brown fields on either side of a roadway in Isfahan, Iran, including the damage on the roof of an Iranian military workshop, center, after a drone attack on Feb. 2, 2023. (39 words)
His family spent the next few years in their home country—Abbas ran a clinic in Tehran and Shekoufeh worked at various hospitals in Isfahan—but their jobs and family commitments involved long commutes that wore them down. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
ISFAHAN, Feb. 20 (MNA) – The central Iranian city of Isfahan is getting prepared for holding the 11th round of the parliamentary elections on Friday.
ISFAHAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Selected films from Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival will be screened in the non-competition section of the 31st International Film Festival for Children and Youth in central Province of Isfahan.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in July claimed to have damaged up a plot to focus on delicate websites round Isfahan.
On Tuesday, online videos and photos showed teachers demonstrating in a number of Iranian cities, including Ahvaz, Isfahan, Karaj, Mashhad, Rasht, Sanandaj, Saqqez and Shiraz.
Similar gatherings were also reported in the central city of Isfahan and the southern city of Shiraz.
Two others were handed prison terms for the incident that led to the deaths of the three security force members in the central province of Isfahan on Nov 16, Mizan said.
We have no (nuclear) power plant in Isfahan to install 100 cameras there,” the nuclear chief stated.
An aerial image of clusters of buildings and brown fields on either side of a roadway in Isfahan, Iran, including the damage on the roof of an Iranian military workshop, center, after a drone attack on Feb. 2, 2023.
Around four hours after reports of strikes, Iran lifted flight suspensions and opened its airports, with runways in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz closed amid the Israeli attack.
Isfahan is a top-priority strike location for Israeli forces, because the area is one of the central features of the regime’s illicit atomic weapons program.
Of late, however, the province is more famous for the Natanz nuclear facility, the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre and a major air base, which was used during Iran's 14 April attack on Israel.
The footage showed two different anti-aircraft gun positions, and its details corresponded with known features of the site of Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan.
During a recent air show at 8th Air Base in Isfahan, the air force displayed an F-14 with a dozen free-fall bombs hanging in its central canal.
His family spent the next few years in their home country—Abbas ran a clinic in Tehran and Shekoufeh worked at various hospitals in Isfahan—but their jobs and family commitments involved long commutes that wore them down.
Not only, the big shift in my artwork came from the realization, after having lived in Zurich for four months, that I'm sometimes walking over a bridge over the Limmat in Zurich, but in my spirit, I'm crossing a bridge in my hometown Isfahan.
Sadeghi had first learned about the MEK in early 1980, shortly after the Iranian Revolution, when the group’s leader, a man named Massoud Rajavi, arrived at Sadeghi’s neighbor’s home in Isfahan for a private memorial.
The change in my surroundings, moving from Isfahan, an ever-sunny city, to Switzerland, a country where you rarely see the sun apart from in the short three summer months, has a huge impact on my artwork.
An Iranian technician at the uranium conversion facility just outside the city of Isfahan in 2007.
It’s an abstract take on the Thirty-Three Bridge, a 17th-century bridge in Isfahan, Iran.
Also on July 19, Iran reported the overhauling of an American-made F-14 tomcat at Shahid Babaei Airbase in Isfahan Province.
Common combinations with isfahan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in isfahan 9×
- of isfahan 8×
- isfahan and 7×
- isfahan is 2×
- isfahan iran 2×
- the isfahan 2×
- isfahan province 2×
- to isfahan 2×