afghan

Example Sentences

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"Sophie thought she'd read the Daily Mail one day and the first comment was: 'Why does she look like an Afghan hound?'"

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Two Afghan former prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay until 2017 were welcomed home in February last year, more than 20 years after they were first arrested.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

By the morning, the Afghan Taliban officials claimed that the death toll in the strike was more than 400.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

In Kolding, 42-year-old Afghan Wahida Abdul Mutaleb admitted she's struggling to make ends meet.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

I gave him the phone and the little black notebook where Baba had scribbled his Afghan friends’ numbers.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini