Example sentences for: chowk

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

  • At the Indra Chowk junction, four dragon-lions snarl beside the unusual stairway entrance to the many-hued and balconied Akash Bhairav, housing a silver Bhairav image brought out on feast days.

  • Flanking the brick palace with its broad-lintelled, latticed windows and nine-story tower is the raised brick square of Basantapur Chowk, where the royal elephants were once kept and where curio dealers now spread their wares.

  • The inner courtyard, the Nasal Chowk, is one of the few that can be visited.

  • Opposite the door to the Sundari Chowk stands a stone Krishna temple built in the Indian shikara style.

  • ' Other examples of the same phenomenon include: chokey `customs station' and chowk `marketplace,' from cauki `marketplace'; mulmul (see above) and mull `soft thin muslin,' from malmal (see above); pandit `scholar; man held in high respect' and pundit `very learned; authoritative commentator,' from pandit `wise, learned'; and numdah `thick felt rug' and numnah `felt or sheepskin saddle pad,' from namda `carpet, rug.


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