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Basra

[ US /ˈbɑsɹɑ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq

How To Use Basra In A Sentence

  • In Basrah, Red Cross instructor was conducting mine and unexploded ordnance awareness activities with schoolchildren.
  • It's 6am and Basra is burning, black clouds of oily smoke drifting over the city to the east, the sound of gunfire rolling across the canal.
  • About a dozen anti-war protesters shouted "terrorists" and held placards saying "Anglian soldiers go to hell" and "butchers of Basra" as ­soldiers from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the ­Poachers, paraded through Luton town centre at midday yesterday. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Mr Joyce has just returned from Basra where he was able to take dozens of helmets, tunics, leggings and boots to the under-privileged men.
  • The Basra provincial council should not let itself remain swept up in a spurious frenzy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Christians in Basra are also grieving the loss of one of their number.
  • Lt.Gen. Lloyd Austin attributed the decline mainly to efforts by Iraqi forces to choke off radical elements of Shiite militias in the southern cities of Basra and Amarah. Iraq: Bombs kill 14
  • It isn't easy living on the Al Basra oil terminal.
  • U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker said that despite a "boatload" of problems with the Basra operation, he was encouraged that the S.iite-led government was finally confronting extremists regardless of their religious affiliation. World Watch
  • In Basra they have found the bombs that were used had enriched uranium in them - neptunium.
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