Punjabin a sentence
Punjab as in: the modern Punjab region
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They told us they were Seraiki speakers from southern Punjab and wanted their own province. (source)Punjab = region that was the historic province of British India that was split between India and Pakistan in 1947
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Now he lived with a cranky man who was originally from Punjab.† (source)
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The landscape was not unfamiliar: monsoon season in Punjab.† (source)
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He looked like he had just walked off a village in the Punjab, and they had absolutely no money.† (source)
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Mukhtar grew up in a peasant family in the village of Meerwala in southern Punjab.† (source)
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Mortenson soon learned that Syed was Pakistani, from Bahawal Puy, a small village in the central Punjab.† (source)
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They rolled out the ponchos and slept in the seats and aisles, fine sleeping, the windows down and the fast rush of night air and the smell of coal smoke and the feeling of motion again, fast motion, fast through level country good for speed, then graceful dark valleys, then climbing into higher, colder country, into mountains, through Punjab and Peshawar and Kabul, and beyond Kabul.† (source)
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His grandfather had come from the Punjab in India to work on the railway as a contract labourer.† (source)
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Colonel Arbuthnot talked of the Punjab and occasionally asked the girl a few questions about Baghdad where, it became clear, she had been in a post as governess.† (source)
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There were owls, the Punjab mail ...and flowers smelt deliciously in the station-master's garden.† (source)
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My great fear was that he was already somewhere near us, preparing the Punjab lasso.† (source)
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The earthquake had been felt in India, and for long stood a leading date in the Punjab.† (source)
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She was a poor mother of five who picked fruit for a living in a village in Punjab. (source)Punjab = region that was the historic province of British India that was split between India and Pakistan in 1947
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She can't begin to picture a village in Punjab.† (source)
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And perhaps the very best means of combating suffocating traditions is education—through schools like one of our favorites, in a remote nook of the Pakistani Punjab, run by one of the world's most extraordinary women.† (source)
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Bent over the carcass in this cave, his forearms slick with blood, Hussein seemed to Mortenson immeasurably removed from his days of scholarship on the sweltering plains of the Punjab.† (source)
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