Example sentences for: delhi

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

  • The Royal architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker created a monumental New Delhi with triumphal arches, palaces, gigantic government buildings, and sweeping avenues radiating from circles (for easy riot control) — the stuff of an empire meant to last forever.

  • Delhi in particular has very modern facilities, many built for the Asian Games in 1982.

  • Their family home, Ayemenem, is located in the comparatively remote southern state of Kerala, a region that Westerners who might know Rushdie's Delhi or Naipaul's Bombay from reading their fiction might not recognize.

  • Straightened out for a while, Humayun came back in 1555 with his Persian army to recapture the Punjab, Delhi, and Agra, but the next year his opium habit caused his death (see page 64).

  • Kicked out of the house when she was only 16 (she was called "Suzie" in those days), Roy went to Delhi and then to architecture school, supporting herself by selling empty milk bottles (some say beer bottles).


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