Example sentences for: bhaktapur

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

  • Bhaktapur means “City of Devotees,” and this could today be taken to mean devotion to the old ways, for Bhaktapur is even more medieval than Old Kathmandu or Patan.

  • This is the home of a small Bhairav idol that is paraded through Bhaktapur in a chariot during the New Year’s Bisket festival.

  • These are widely sold, but the best come from Bhaktapur.

  • Prithvi Narayan Shah captured Kathmandu and Patan in 1768 and Bhaktapur a year later.

  • Bhaktapur expanded over the centuries from a nucleus around the Tachupal Tole, reached by a walk from the Nyatapola Temple through narrow streets full of unfamiliar merchandise: the lengths of red yarn are sold to be plaited in women’s hair; the gray cannonballs are homemade soap, the conical yellowish cigarettes are bidi, the cheapest tobacco, and can be bought singly.


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