How to Use Afghan in a Sentence

Afghan

noun
  • But not everyone supports the idea of an Afghan Olympic team.
    — Abigail Pesta, Rolling Stone, 2024-08-02
  • But Afghan didn’t take the woman home, according to police.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 2025-02-26
  • The Afghan Post, like much of the country, still does everything on paper.
    — Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-07-05
  • Any Afghan who fears persecution is able to request asylum.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-06-18
  • Sher Khan, a 42-year-old Afghan, had returned home from his job in a brick factory.
    — Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 2025-06-14
  • Newsweek has reached out to the Afghan Ministry of Education for comment via email.
    — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 2024-12-04
  • It is believed that he was released by the Taliban in the waning days as the Afghan republic crumbled.
    — Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 2025-03-05
  • 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, 2023-12-10
  • Veterans groups have been among the most supportive of the Afghan Adjustment Act.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 2023-08-14
  • But now the Afghan Government has cut the contract and the Chinese firm says the Taliban took some of its workers hostage.
    — Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The Unlocked podcast host, 26, was unmasked as the Afghan Hound during Wednesday night's episode.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 2024-03-14
  • The Afghan Football Federation desperately made calls around the world on the girls’ behalf, pleading for help to get them out.
    — Marie Margolius, Time, 2023-08-24
  • 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, 2025-02-24
  • But the Afghan Taliban are no longer an insurgent group dependent on Pakistani safe havens and Islamabad’s goodwill.
    — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 2024-01-09
  • 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, 2024-10-13
  • 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, 2023-07-28
  • The Pakistani Taliban, which operates independently from the Afghan Taliban, denied that it was involved.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 2023-09-29
  • How has this shift from traditional Afghan cuisine to contemporary Afghan cuisine been received by the Afghan-American community?
    — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 2025-03-19
  • 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, 2024-11-23
  • Candidates include Afghan and Ukrainian humanitarian parolees.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 2025-05-12
  • 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, 2024-05-22
  • This could reduce the likelihood of the Afghan Adjustment Act being a legislative priority, despite some Republican support.
    — Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 2024-08-14
  • 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, 2025-03-03
  • 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, 2023-08-16

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