Example sentences for: gorkha

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

  • A side road makes it easy to visit Gorkha, ancestral seat of the Shah dynasty and city from which the unification of Nepal was begun.

  • Prithvi Narayan Shah, “The Great,” was born in 1723, in the ninth generation of a line of Hindu princes of Gorkha, a hill town whose lands adjoined those of Kathmandu to the east.

  • The British invaded Nepal from India in 1814 but were repulsed by the king’s soldiers from Gorkha — thus earning all subsequent Nepali fighting men the name “Gurkhas” (see page 61).

  • In recent years Maoist activity in the area has limited the number of people visiting Gorkha.

  • A Gorkha Welfare Scheme (GWS) has been introduced for these ex-servicemen and their dependents.


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