How do you use Burka in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like burqa or garment, plus the exact meaning.
Burka meaning
Alternative form of burqa.
Using Burka
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative form of burqa.
- Useful related words include: burqa, garment.
- In the example corpus, burka often appears in combinations such as: the burka, of burka, leonard burka.
Context around Burka
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Burka
- In this selection, "burka" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, leonard, oppressive, old, social, fund and first stand out and add context to how "burka" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and leonard burka fund for and and leonard burka social action. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "burka" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with burka
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Isn’t the hijab and burka supposed to be about modesty? (11 words)
What are the differences between a hijab, a burka and a niqab? (12 words)
I don’t know any women wearing a burka who want to teach. (13 words)
The Taliban’s strict rules on women’s behavior has included not allowing women to leave the house without the permission of a male, that girls cannot go to school, and that women who do not wear the burka outside of the house should be killed. (46 words)
It happens to be what a lot of people think when they see a woman in a burka, but coming from a former holder of one of the great offices of state, and not a comedian, his words failed the political-correctness stress test. (44 words)
No: The thoughts of Labour’s Emily Thornberry, speaking on Question Time in 2013, shortly after Tory Ken Clarke had compared the burka to “a bag” — which is surely just as gratuitously offensive as Johnson comparing the burka to a letterbox. (41 words)
Isn’t the hijab and burka supposed to be about modesty? (11 words)
What are the differences between a hijab, a burka and a niqab? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Contributions may be made to the Frances and Leonard Burka Social Action Endowment at Adas Israel Congregation, the Frances and Leonard Burka Fund for the Arts at George Washington University or a charity of choice.
No: The thoughts of Labour’s Emily Thornberry, speaking on Question Time in 2013, shortly after Tory Ken Clarke had compared the burka to “a bag” — which is surely just as gratuitously offensive as Johnson comparing the burka to a letterbox.
Dozens of Arabs from Burka first threatened the shepherd and then hurled rocks, wielded clubs and shot live fireworks at him and at several local Jewish residents who came in response to his call for help.
Stanley Omondi, 25, donned a burka as a disguise to enter this month's women's chess championship in Kenya, Africa.
One wonders how long it will be before the maga-taliban start trying to make women wear some 'Murican version of a burka.
Searches are being conducted in the area for the terrorists as large forces prepared to enter the nearby Arab village of Burka.
The symbolic images of two wives and a daughter holding hands covered from head to toe in the oppressive burka walking with the raging hot sun of Afghanistan bearing down on them flies with force into our hearts and minds.
The Taliban’s strict rules on women’s behavior has included not allowing women to leave the house without the permission of a male, that girls cannot go to school, and that women who do not wear the burka outside of the house should be killed.
Abdirahman Osman Yusuf has been charged in the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Burka O. Mohammed near West River Parkway and Third Avenue, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Thursday.
I don’t know any women wearing a burka who want to teach.
Isn’t the hijab and burka supposed to be about modesty?
What are the differences between a hijab, a burka and a niqab?
It happens to be what a lot of people think when they see a woman in a burka, but coming from a former holder of one of the great offices of state, and not a comedian, his words failed the political-correctness stress test.
Mr Johnson also defended his controversial claim that Muslim women wearing the burka ‘look like letter boxes’.
On the brink last night of being elected as Pakistan's new prime minister, he recently married his third wife, a burka-wearing Islamic mystic whose face he had never seen before their wedding.
The burka is deeply inimical to fraternity, a quality that Ambedkar emphasised was vital to the creation of a democratic society.
The former foreign secretary used his column to comment on Denmark's introduction of a burka ban.
The government of Denmark is set to ban burka (also called burqa), the traditional Muslin veil, and niqab (Islamic headwear worn by women) in the country.
Two, waving a trishul about in public is not like wearing a burka in public.
Well during the election Hillary, Like Saudi women, was not allowed to drive, and probably would have looked better campaigning in a Burka.
Common combinations with burka
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the burka 5×
- of burka 3×
- leonard burka 2×
- burka to 2×
- wearing burka 2×
- in burka 2×