Kerkrade

/ ˈkɛrkraːdə /

noun

1. a town in the SE Netherlands, in Limburg: one of the oldest coal-mining centres in Europe. Pop: 50 000 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Jongbloed played most of his professional career with Amsterdam club DWS — later becoming FC Amsterdam — and then appeared for Roda JC Kerkrade and Go Ahead Eagles, finally retiring at the age of 45.

From Seattle Times

The father of five children was arrested at his home in the southern Dutch city of Kerkrade in 2019 and has been jailed ever since.

From Seattle Times

The second went off around half an hour later in the mail room of a firm that supplies office products in the southern town of Kerkrade.

From BBC

Two packages then blew up in the mailrooms of two firms in Amsterdam and Kerkrade on Wednesday, although this time neither bore the CIB logo.

From BBC

Less than an hour later, about 140 miles away in the Dutch town of Kerkrade, located near the German border, a second letter bomb detonated inside the mailroom at Japanese printer company Ricoh, also not harming anyone, Dutch daily morning newspaper, De Telegraaf, reported.

From Fox News