Example sentences for: bengali

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

  • Rupee banknotes are printed in India’s 15 official languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujurati, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, and Malayalam, as well as Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu.

  • Dhoni or doni `fishing or coastal trading vessel,' for example, may have entered English from Hindi, Marathi, Kanarese (or Canarese), or Telugu; dinghy `small boat' from Hindi or Bengali; kathiawari `breed of horses' from Hindi or Gujurati; khuskhus `aromatic grass, vetiver' from Hindi or Persian; kirpan `Sikh dagger' from Hindi or Punjabi; and nagkasser or nagkesar `tree'.

  • Singer argues that all sentient creatures are equally valuable and that you should donate your income until you're as impoverished as a Bengali refugee, but he lives in comfort.

  • Nehru got his Independence and Jinnah his Partition — a Pakistan whose eastern Bengali portion was to break away 24 years later to become Bangladesh.

  • Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.


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