Sukkur

[ suhk-er ]

/ ˈsʌk ər /

a city in SE Pakistan, on the Indus River.

Example sentences from the Web for sukkur

At Sukkur, in Northern Scinde, sixteen hundred were in hospital.

Sir Charles Napier |Sir William Francis Butler
Between Sukkur and Shikarpoor the camels had dropped down dead by scores.

History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. I (of 3) |Sir John William Kaye
Sukkur , a town on the Indus (here spanned by a fine bridge), 28 m. SE.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia |Edited by Rev. James Wood
To supply all these wants there were at Sukkur about 1600 camels.

The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 |Various

The nearest point of railway communication with Afghanistan was then at Sukkur, on the Indus.

The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 |Edwin A. Pratt