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
• The Afghan Post, like much of the country, still does everything on paper.
  — Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 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
• But Afghan didn’t take the woman home, according to police.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2025
• Newsweek has reached out to the Afghan Ministry of Education for comment via email.
  — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
• The Unlocked podcast host, 26, was unmasked as the Afghan Hound during Wednesday night's episode.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• It is believed that he was released by the Taliban in the waning days as the Afghan republic crumbled.
  — Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025
• Veterans groups have been among the most supportive of the Afghan Adjustment Act.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
• Newsweek has contacted the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via email, for comment.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Rebuild said the husband and wife were taken from their home in the Nayak area of central Bamiyan province, along with another foreigner and an Afghan.
  — The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Once-close ties between Pakistan’s leaders and the Afghan Taliban have frayed, and violent cross-border exchanges have become alarmingly frequent.
  — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
• 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
• French officials said the 22-year-old Afghan was indicted on Saturday for plotting attacks against civilians and placed in pretrial detention.
  — Nancy Ing, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
• Immigrant advocates also worried that the memo could apply to Afghan and Ukrainian immigrants brought to the United States under separate programs.
  — Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• Holding power in the country for over three years, the Afghan Taliban have systematically stripped Afghan women of their rights, preventing them from receiving an education and even working.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 23 Nov. 2024
• Meanwhile, the former Afghan Department Ministry employee and his family have resigned themselves to waiting.
  — Betsy Joles, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
• 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
• German prosecutors later said the suspect in the Munich incident, a 24-year-old Afghan, appeared to have been motivated by Islamic extremism.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
• The satellite analysis carried out by Afghan Witness shows that three of the six most affected districts were areas populated by the minority Hazara community.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• 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