Example sentences for: calcutta

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

  • Gold, silver, copper, and brass — each has its own bazaar in the big neighborhood markets of Delhi, Mumbai, and Calcutta.

  • Soon thereafter, Hall found himself a castaway at the mouth of the Ganges, and he chose to remain, first in Calcutta, where he became a journalist and teacher.

  • Calcutta became the center of a vigorous free press and the intellectual capital of India.

  • Indians applauded the decision of Lord Ripon to allow Indian magistrates to try British defendants in criminal cases, but attempts at social reform such as protecting child brides against rape by their husbands were fought by traditionalist Hindus from Calcutta and Pune with cries of “religion in danger. ”

  • Henry D'Souza, archbishop of Calcutta, said a patient in West Bengal claimed that a tumor disappeared after he was blessed by Mother Teresa.


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