Barisal

American  

[buhr-uh-sahl, bar-uh-sawl] / ˌbʌr əˈsɑl, ˈbær əˌsɔl /

noun

1. a port city in S Bangladesh, on the Ganges River.

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Example Sentences

Younger women, aged from 15-19 years, and women from urban slums and disaster-prone coastal regions such as Barisal and Khulna experienced even higher rates, of more than 80 percent, the survey added.

From Barron's

China helped with two coal plants, in Barisal and Payra.

From New York Times

Mr Hossain was born in Barisal, Bangladesh, and came to the UK in 1995.

From BBC

We started near Sealdah station, where my grandmother had stepped off the train from Barisal in 1946, with five boys and four steel trunks in tow.

From Literature

In his ancestral village of Dehergoti, near Barisal, Jagu’s psyche had somehow been tethered to his friends and his family.

From Literature