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Busra

American

[buhs-ruh] / ˈbʌs rə /

Or Busrah

noun

Basra.

Busra British

/ ˈbʌsrə /

noun

variant spellings of Basra

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Example Sentences

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"You can't imagine how happy we are," he told me in the nearby town of Busra.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2024

"It's like you gave me the world," Mama Busra said of the moment she heard her son's voice.

From Reuters • Feb. 12, 2023

He answered - and Mama Busra broke into tears hearing her son's voice for the first time since the earthquake struck five days earlier.

From Reuters • Feb. 12, 2023

Busra, who was born in Besni and brought up in Swindon, Wiltshire, travelled on Monday to Turkey to help.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

The wireless broke down a few days after we left Busra, so we got no news whatever of the outer world, and soon ceased to speculate on what might be happening in France.

From War in the Garden of Eden by Roosevelt, Kermit

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