How to Use Kurd in a Sentence

Kurd

noun
  • One of the asylum seekers who boarded the plane to Kigali earlier this week was a forty-five-year-old Iranian Kurd.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2022-06-17
  • Police initially said Amini, an Iranian Kurd, died after falling ill and slipping into a coma.
    — Hyder Abbasi, NBC News, 2022-10-09
  • The ethnic Kurd perished at the hands of Iran’s morality police while on a visit to Tehran last September, sparking the biggest nationwide protests in over a decade.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2023-09-21

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