Patiala
Americannoun
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an important state of the former Punjab States: now part of Punjab in NW India.
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a city in E Punjab, in N India.
noun
Example Sentences
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Palwinder Singh came to America from Patiala, India in 2001, and is one of the 138,000 truck drivers in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
To keep the marauding jungle creature off the streets, officials sentenced it to "monkey jail" — a now-defunct detainment center in Patiala that was reserved for ill-behaving primates.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2021
In the film, Arjun Patiala, actress Sunny Leone reads out the phone number of the character she plays - which happens to belong to 26-year-old Puneet Agarwal.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2019
Her grandmother performed in the royal courts in Patiala, in northern India, before the family fled to Lahore during partition.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2019
The Patiala cavalry, who were leading, came up with the Turkish rear guard in the afternoon and charged.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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