Example sentences for: calcutta

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

  • Why do they read Stephen King in Calcutta?

  • His grandiose life in the viceregal residence in Calcutta or palace in Simla was worthy of the Mughal emperors.

  • On the east coast, try Puri, south of Calcutta, or Pondicherry.

  • The most important contribution to comparative linguistics was made by Sir William Jones (1746-94), a British linguist trained in the law who was appointed judge of the supreme court of judicature at Calcutta, in 1783.

  • So we learn that baby Jane drank from her mother's breast (before being farmed out to a nurse with the eye-catchingly contemporary name of Movie); that, while growing up, she may have tasted spicy Indian condiments shipped to Hampshire by her Uncle Tysoe Saul Hancock, who was stationed in Calcutta with the East India Co.; and that she probably began to menstruate at the age of 15 or 16.


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