a high priest or religious leader, esp a Sufi master
Word origin
C16: from Arabic shaykh old man
Examples of 'sheikh' in a sentence
sheikh
Victory would be curtains for the oil sheikhs.
The Sun (2014)
Look at the sheikhs and the oligarchs.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The fake sheikh was one front page too many.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The fake sheikh is a known fact of life.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The fake sheikh has become something more than a tabloid device.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
For perhaps we have already met our fake sheikh.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But what is the true meaning of the fake sheikh?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Rarely have sheikhs been so fake.
The Sun (2012)
Everyone knew about the fake sheikh!
The Sun (2006)
Following the money would have led us to an Arab sheikh.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They were designed for oil sheikhs, oligarchs and tech billionaires.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There's a fake sheikh waiting out there for all of us.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He took the team to three quarter-finals but quit after being duped by a fake sheikh.
The Sun (2009)
A conference of tribal sheikhs was called.
Aidan Hartley THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003)
And as we do so, perhaps we should ask ourselves what our own fake sheikh would offer us.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He told the inquiry that he used his fake sheikh persona to get evidence of people repeating crimes that he had been told they had previously committed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A pity he didn't say that to the fake sheikh.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This is an excerpt from the dinner conversation with the infamous 'fake sheikh '.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
An Arab sheikh once offered me 1m.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So do assorted Russian oligarchs and Arabian sheikhs.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But there's no chance of booking yourself in and bumping into a pint-sized oil sheikh in the corridor.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
When a man on three million net a year goes fawning after fake sheikhs, it makes you wonder about greed and what it does to people.