Sentence examples for narghile from inspiring English sources

Along the river's banks are open-air teahouses, where nostalgic music is played and people drink fresh cherry juice and smoke narghile waterpipes.

The boy, from the Carmel area, where the fire began, admitted under questioning that he had been smoking a tobacco water pipe, or narghile, and had thrown away a hot coal that set off the fire, said Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman.

The Manara Palace Cafe (961-1-364-949), next to the lighthouse on the water, is a perfect place to absorb the salt air, wash of waves, cry of seagulls and fiery sunset while drinking fresh mango juice (7,500 pounds, or $5 at 1,492 Lebanese pounds to the dollar) and smoking sweet fruit tobacco from a narghile pipe (12,000 pounds).

In 1939, the W.P.A. Guide to New York City observed: "Although the fez has given way to the snap-brim and the narghile has been abandoned for cigarettes, the coffeehouses and the tobacco and confectionery shops of the Levantines still remain".

Kinzer is alive to the delights of so convivial a culture, taking us on an enthusiastic tour of narghile, or water pipe, salons and bar-restaurants overlooking the Bosporus called meyhanes, where Turks drink raki and eat melon and sing along to the mournful tunes of a gypsy band.

Since the Ottomans introduced the narghile, or water pipe, to the Arab world some hundreds of years ago, puffing away the hours on a pipe has been one of the favorite pastimes of men throughout the region.

"You can smoke narghiles and drink coffee," Watenpaugh says, "and the Iraqis have this marvellous lemon tea".

On a Thursday evening last summer, a smartly dressed crowd, most of them students, smoked apple-scented narghiles, or water pipes, their eyes glued to Syrian soap operas playing on big screens.

Lebanese and Egyptian music videos featuring lovesick crooners and fancy cars play on a couple of screens, while many diners puff away on large water pipes known as narghiles, or hookahs, fueled by fruit-flavored tobacco.