Peshawar is an English word with synonyms like city or metropolis. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Peshawar meaning
A city, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Synonyms of Peshawar
Using Peshawar
- The main meaning on this page is: A city, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
- Useful related words include: city, metropolis, urban center.
- In the example corpus, peshawar often appears in combinations such as: in peshawar, peshawar zalmi, of peshawar.
Context around Peshawar
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Peshawar
- In this selection, "peshawar" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, online, led, court, pakistan, zalmi and city stand out and add context to how "peshawar" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include building in peshawar was set and canada from peshawar pakistan. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "peshawar" sits close to words such as asbury, azam and bally, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with peshawar
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sharif traveled to Peshawar and visited the wounded. (8 words)
In April, gunmen shot and killed Dayal Singh in Peshawar. (10 words)
Raza Aziz, 35, recently moved to Canada from Peshawar, Pakistan. (10 words)
Once known as “the city of flowers”, Pakistan’s Peshawar was rocked by a blast in a mosque, by a suicide bomber, inside the city’s main police compound on Monday, January 30. The blast claimed at least 101 victims, and injured at least 225, mostly police. (47 words)
Its foreign ministry said it was “saddened to learn that numerous people lost their lives and many others were injured by an explosion at a mosque in Peshawar” and condemned attacks on worshippers as contrary to the teachings of Islam. (40 words)
At a meeting in Peshawar on Friday, the premier said that the IMF is giving Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and his team “a tough time,” hinting at harsh measures to be taken to restart the stalled loan program. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
PESHAWAR: The meeting of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet was held under the chair of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in Peshawar on Thursday.
PSL 2019 Live Cricket Score Streaming Online, Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators Live Score: Darren Sammy-led Peshawar Zalmi will take on Quetta Gladiators in the third match of the ongoing Pakistan Super League.
At a meeting in Peshawar on Friday, the premier said that the IMF is giving Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and his team “a tough time,” hinting at harsh measures to be taken to restart the stalled loan program.
At least 17 people were killed and 83 others injured after a blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan’s Peshawar city on Monday, officials said.
Child Protection Court Peshawar rejected bail plea of alleged rapist of minor and ordered to kept him behind bars.
In April, gunmen shot and killed Dayal Singh in Peshawar.
In Peshawar, in the restive northwest, labor organizations and trade unions held indoor events to demand better workers’ rights amid high inflation.
It is certainly possible that the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the TTP launched the Peshawar mosque suicide attack without the knowledge and approval of its parent organization.
Its foreign ministry said it was “saddened to learn that numerous people lost their lives and many others were injured by an explosion at a mosque in Peshawar” and condemned attacks on worshippers as contrary to the teachings of Islam.
It was not clear how the bomber was able to slip into the walled compound, which houses the northwestern city of Peshawar’s police headquarters and is itself located in a high-security zone with other government buildings.
More than 300 worshippers were praying in the mosque in the city of Peshawar, with more approaching, when the bomber set off his explosives vest on Monday morning.
Motorcyclists and rickshaw pullers move past a car burnt in Wednesday's clashes between police and the supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, at a road, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, May 11, 2023.
Once known as “the city of flowers”, Pakistan’s Peshawar was rocked by a blast in a mosque, by a suicide bomber, inside the city’s main police compound on Monday, January 30. The blast claimed at least 101 victims, and injured at least 225, mostly police.
PESHAWAR: Heavy rains followed by strong winds killed at least 27 people, including eight children, in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Sunday (Jun 11).
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali on Thursday reiterated that he wanted to hold elections in the province in 70 to 90-day but emphasised on conducive and peaceful environment for the polls.
Police called off the search Tuesday for survivors of the deadly terrorist attack on a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Pakistan.
Raza Aziz, 35, recently moved to Canada from Peshawar, Pakistan.
Sharif traveled to Peshawar and visited the wounded.
State properties including Radio Pakistan building in Peshawar was set ablaze, he said adding that a dark chapter was written on May 9 which exposed their real face before the nation.
He said that the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been requested to establish a counter-terrorism department on modern lines and to install a safe city system in Peshawar.
Common combinations with peshawar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in peshawar 35×
- peshawar zalmi 15×
- of peshawar 13×
- peshawar pakistan 13×
- the peshawar 9×
- peshawar and 6×
- to peshawar 5×
- peshawar on 4×
- peshawar the 3×
- peshawar after 3×