Samarra
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Associate art director Samarra Khaja, a longtime vegetarian, admitted that “a regular hot dog generally skeeves me out,” but she would buy her Field Roast Signature Stadium Dogs again.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024
To solve this problem, al-Mutasim moved his capital from Baghdad to Samarra in northern Mesopotamia in order to segregate the Turkic soldiers from the rest of the population.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The text at the bottom right of the poster reads 'Saraya al-Salam, operation command of holy Samarra'.
From Reuters • Jul. 15, 2021
Born Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq, he adopted the nom de guerre al-Baghdadi early on and joined the Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces after the 2003 invasion.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2019
Corps, I was told, were ignorant up to almost the day of our starting out from Samarra.
From The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad by Thompson, Edward John
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