Mannar
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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If real, the pearls would have been harvested by pearl divers in the Gulf of Mannar, between present day Sri Lanka and India.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
For months, no kerosene was available at all in Mannar as the country's foreign exchange reserves dried up and it was unable to import crude for its refineries.
From Reuters • Sep. 7, 2022
Premadasa’s supporters organized the convoy of Muslims who had fled their homes in the northern district of Mannar in 1982, when the Tamil insurgency began to grow.
From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2019
As recently as the 1970s, the divide between the Tamils of Mannar and Rameswaram was, at best, notional.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2016
There I fell to thinking about the incidents that marked our excursion over the Mannar oysterbank.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.
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