Words similar to burmese

Example sentences for: burmese

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

"Myanmar, arguably one of the world's harshest military regimes, is bound to crack down even harder on political dissidents after what happened," the paper argued, adding that Burmese dissidents could now lose their safe haven in Thailand since the sympathetic Thai government cannot be seen to support terrorist groups.
Likewise with Myanmar, the name now used-- at least in the non-U.S.-English-speaking world--for what used to be called Burma . The official name of the country in Burmese has, since independence from Britain, been Pyidaungsu Socialist Thammada Myanma Naingngandaw , so Myanmar, it seems, is simply Burmese for Burma . This is the same phenomenon as Côte d'Ivoire . But the current Myanmarese (do I venture where angels fear to tread by coining the adjective?)
He had been an audacious cavalry officer in the Anglo-Burmese wars and now exploited the situation for his own benefit.
That changed in 1786, when the Sultan of Kedah granted company representative Francis Light rights to the island of Penang and the strip of mainland coast opposite Province Wellesley (now Seberang Perai) as a counterweight to the pressing demands of the neighboring Thais and Burmese.
Thailand is the only southeast Asian nation to have avoided colonization by a western power, so there are significantly fewer English loanwords in Thai than there are French in Lao, Vietnamese, and Khmer, English in Malay and Burmese, and Dutch in Indonesia's various languages.