Example sentences for: balinese

How can you use “balinese” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bali’s contact with the Dutch was restricted to providing slaves — mainly Balinese who had broken the rajas’ laws or priests’ taboos — and soldiers for the army of the United Dutch East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC).

  • International travel agents were given a tour of the country, including a visit to Bali that coincided with an important Balinese ceremony in March 1963 at the so-called “mother temple” Besakih, on the slopes of the island’s highest mountain, Gunung Agung.

  • To the Balinese, the mountains are the abode of the gods, the source of the rivers that water their crops, and of occasional outbursts of destructive fury.

  • At Nusa Dua, the outside world — even the everyday Balinese world — is excluded.

  • In spite of appalling losses, the Balinese won the day.


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