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Use "shi" in a sentence
"During the guanyin shi (market of Avalokiesvara), from March 15 to 20, in Dali, various merchants came, and the government mobilized police and soldiers to ensure security and to protect the businesses. 181"
"He spoke of his fears and what the United States was doing in iraq, toppling one government, electing another, was creating what he called a shi’ia crescent, from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut that threatened to dominate the Arab world, challenging modern Sunni governments in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and others with an axis of Shia power based in Iran."
"The Chinese-language papers used the phrase yan shi zheng for the disorder."