Example sentences for: lao

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

  • Thailand is the only southeast Asian nation to have avoided colonization by a western power, so there are significantly fewer English loanwords in Thai than there are French in Lao, Vietnamese, and Khmer, English in Malay and Burmese, and Dutch in Indonesia's various languages.

  • When his aides panic over some nugget of bad news, he calms them down by quoting his sages: Lao Tzu, Euripedes, Toynbee, Covey.

  • The two top teahouse theaters in the capital are the Lao She Teahouse (3 Qianmenxi Dajie), with nightly variety shows and snacks, and the Tian Qiao Happy Teahouse (113 Tianqiao Market), with balcony seating and a staff outfitted in Qing costumes.

  • Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.


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