Example Sentences

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In Bakersfield, California, she meets a community of Punjabis who have opened a roadside truck stop, and others who are almond farmers and processors.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023

Punjabis, most of them young men, started to arrive in California in the late 1800s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023

The army’s ranks were dominated by ethnic Punjabis and Pashtuns, leaving Gen. Musharraf an outsider even among top officers.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

Because Mr. Musharraf was a muhajir, or emigrant from India, he was able to rise above Pakistan’s ethnic and political divides, which sometimes pit Pashtuns, Punjabis and others against one another.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

It consisted of the 2nd Kashmir Rifles, 28th Punjabis, 130th Baluchis, the 2nd Rhodesians, a squadron of the 17th Cavalry, the 5th and 6th Batteries of the S.A.

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.