Example sentences for: indian

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

  • The controversy began in 1947, when Great Britain withdrew from the Indian subcontinent, creating two states--India (predominantly Hindu) and Pakistan (predominantly Muslim)--out of the subcontinent's hundreds of territories.

  • A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with late developments in the Indian Airlines hostage crisis in Afghanistan.

  • The commentariat polishes its worry beads over the Indian bomb tests.

  • The Japanese wooed Malay Indians as recruits for a short-lived “Indian National Army” to fight the British in India.


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