How to Use madrassa in a Sentence

madrassa

noun

• Noor’s madrassa was shut down, so Mr. Ahmed rallied parents to start a makeshift one nearby.
  — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
• After-school madrassas serve a growing demand for parents who want their children to study the Quran.
  — Katrin Bennhold and Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2017
• Soldiers herded them toward a nearby madrassa, where the men sat on the floor while an informant with a scarf covering his face looked for militants among them.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• In 2009 Bangladeshi forces raided a madrassa funded by Green Crescent and found weapons and extremist literature.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• The Taliban claimed the strike hit a madrassa, or a religious school, during a graduation ceremony, killing dozens of civilians.
  — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
• Akhunzada ran a madrassa, or a religious school, in Pakistan’s border regions before his 2016 rise as the new Taliban leader.
  — Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• But madrassas are not the only source of Pakistan’s Islamic education.
  — Madiha Afzal, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
• The nunnery looked oddly like a women’s madrassa in Qom, the country’s religious centre, and the audience seemed thrilled by a female rebel challenging the stifling atmosphere.
  — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
• The strike, which included dropping ten bombs on a madrassa, or religious school, and firing two missiles at targets fleeing the area, was estimated to have killed two dozen al-Qaeda members.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
• Ehsanullah Amiri wove carpets for $100 a month to help support his family, while Habib Khan Totakhil studied in a madrassa in the ultraconservative tribal areas.
  — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
• Witnesses reached by telephone said the mosque was also a madrassa, or religious school, and that members of the Taliban had been present at the assembly, which had been organized to recognize graduates, appoint mullahs, and elevate junior mullahs.
  — New York Times, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Abdullah Qarloq, a senator from the district, said the Afghan military struck the Akhundzada Gojor madrassa, or religious school, during a graduation ceremony.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
• For generations, the region’s Buddhist and Zoroastrian temples, ornate mosques and madrassas, ancient bazaars and breathtaking natural landscapes were hidden behind the Iron Curtain, then enveloped by dictatorship, poverty, social turmoil and war.
  — Charly Wilder, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• All clerics are government vetted; all madrassas are government controlled and infiltrated by undercover informants.
  — Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024