Example sentences for: indian

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

  • “ `highly offensive' in any context because it denotes the stereotype of the American Indian” (too asinine to merit comment).

  • Similarly, Bombay furniture (a style combining European forms with Indian ornamentation) provided the metonymic euphemism The Bombay; the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the name is possibly attributable to the Bombay chair , wherein chamberpots were placed, as it was common in the past to have one's chamberpot concealed in a piece of furniture, which could then be proudly displayed.

  • Once an Indian trail, in its heyday this 16-mile (25-km) roadway glittered with the prosperity of its department stores and luxury hotels.

  • Yet today a few of them--specifically those associated with American Indian tribes--find themselves at the center of a surprisingly bitter controversy.

  • The Star also criticized Clinton for his handling of the nuclear weapons crisis in the Indian subcontinent: He should replace "sanctions, disapprobation, and isolation" with the promotion of India to the United Nations Security Council and the Group of Eight in exchange for India holding a plebiscite in Kashmir.


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