How to Use madrassa in a Sentence

madrassa

noun
  • One was a girls' madrassa, or religious school.
    — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Uncle continued to act so nicely that even the pupils at the madrassa agreed that a change of some kind had occurred.
    — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The regime is subsidizing hundreds of madrassas — religious schools — for boys and men.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Admission to the Biennale, which will be spread out among the mosques and madrassas for which Bukhara is known, will be free.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The debate around the need for women to veil (or not) is vibrant, and many businessmen legitimize their prosperity by investing in new mosques or madrassas.
    — Marlene Laruelle, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2017
  • But madrassas are not the only source of Pakistan’s Islamic education.
    — Madiha Afzal, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Sheltering in a fortified madrassa close to the Umayyad Mosque, Ibn Khaldun realized that the city would soon fall.
    — Adam Kuper, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Mosques, madrassas, and mausoleums were festooned in teal and indigo mosaic tiles and crowned with the azure domes that became a signature of Central Asian architecture.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Taliban leaders often lived in the safe haven of neighboring Pakistan, while the Taliban also recruited suicide bombers from Pakistani madrassas.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In 2009 Bangladeshi forces raided a madrassa funded by Green Crescent and found weapons and extremist literature.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Akhunzada ran a madrassa, or a religious school, in Pakistan’s border regions before his 2016 rise as the new Taliban leader.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
  • 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
  • All clerics are government vetted; all madrassas are government controlled and infiltrated by undercover informants.
    — Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • After his mother’s death, he was sent to study Urdu and Islamic calligraphy at his grandfather’s madrassa in Sidhpur, Gujarat.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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