How to Use Afghan in a Sentence

Afghan

noun
  • But not everyone supports the idea of an Afghan Olympic team.
    Abigail Pesta, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But the specter of the Taliban’s edicts targeting women and girls also looms at the Afghan Post.
    Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
  • In the Vietnam war, Afghan Pathans would have been ideal troops but in wars fought against Moslems would have betrayed us.
    Matt Schoenfeldt, National Review, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The Unlocked podcast host, 26, was unmasked as the Afghan Hound during Wednesday night's episode.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Veterans groups have been among the most supportive of the Afghan Adjustment Act.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Afghan Football Federation desperately made calls around the world on the girls’ behalf, pleading for help to get them out.
    Marie Margolius, Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But the Afghan Taliban are no longer an insurgent group dependent on Pakistani safe havens and Islamabad’s goodwill.
    Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Not long after Raziq was born in a mud-walled village, the Afghan Communists seized power in Kabul, and in response rebels rose up against the government, plunging the country into a conflict that lasted for more than four decades.
    Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The Pakistani Taliban, which operates independently from the Afghan Taliban, denied that it was involved.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Pakistan’s leadership blames the Afghan Taliban for harboring militants who have staged a mounting number of deadly attacks in Pakistan in recent months.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Senators did not include language in the final bill concerning Afghan evacuees affected by America's withdrawal from the country nearly two years ago.
    Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 28 July 2023
  • This could reduce the likelihood of the Afghan Adjustment Act being a legislative priority, despite some Republican support.
    Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Congress’s failure to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, legislation consistent with history that would normalize immigration status for folks who have nowhere else to go, is a glaring reflection of the lack of political will to provide real solutions.
    Shawn Vandiver, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The Afghan Adjustment Act has garnered support from veterans groups, former high-ranking military personnel, and refugee advocacy organizations.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 27 July 2023

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