Example sentences for: elephant-headed

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

  • Shiva and Parvati are the parents of the elephant-headed Ganesh, easily the most popular of the family because he is capable of assuring the success of any venture.

  • The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.

  • Dim electric lights reveal niches at either end that are believed to have housed shrines: One now holds a damaged statue of the elephant-headed god, Ganesha.

  • To one side of the Kasthamandap is a small, shiny, brass-roofed shrine dedicated to the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh.


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