Example sentences for: brahmins

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

  • Popular devotional worship, with its appeal to the common people, replaced the sacrifices practiced exclusively by the Brahmins.

  • A flamboyant New Yorker, her unconventional ways scandalized the Boston Brahmins on more than one occasion.

  • Brahmins, the priestly caste, fill many of the top posts in the universities and administration; many Indian Army officers can trace their ancestry to the proud Kshatriya warrior caste; business is dominated by the merchant or Vaishya caste; and Shudras till the land.

  • The Brahmins cannily countered this threat by absorbing the new ideas into their teachings.

  • The real mystery, though, is why the story was emblazoned last April on the cover of that newsletter for high-minded literary Brahmins, The New York Review of Books --and why, last week, in the same publication's pages, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board stepped forth to debate the author.


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