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
• Sher Khan, a 42-year-old Afghan, had returned home from his job in a brick factory.
  — Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025
• Newsweek has reached out to the Afghan Ministry of Education for comment via email.
  — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• Veterans groups have been among the most supportive of the Afghan Adjustment Act.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Newsweek has contacted the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via email, for comment.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
• The Unlocked podcast host, 26, was unmasked as the Afghan Hound during Wednesday night's episode.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 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
• Another Afghan, Khalid Khan, said the new restrictions could expose him and thousands of others to arrest in Pakistan.
  — Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 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
• 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