Example sentences for: durbar

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

  • Directly across from the Kumari Bahal stands the incongruous white Grecian facade of a palace wing that was built in 1908 by Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere, a Rana responsible for the Singha Durbar and many of the city’s neoclassical edifices.

  • Governmental terms: daroga, dewan, durbar, parganna, peshwa, purwannah, russud, sheristadar, zamindar

  • Of the many temples across Durbar Square from the Royal Palace, the Krishna Mandir, located opposite the Golden Gate and built by King Siddhi Narsimha Malla in 1636, is the most unusual and impressive.

  • The Licchavi kings founded the city as Kantipur in the eighth century and laid the foundations of the Hanuman Dhoka Durbar, the palace which gives this area its name.

  • Turning back into Durbar Square, climb the nine steep steps of the central Maju Deval pagoda to Shiva for a view over the palace and its surrounding temples.


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