Words similar to malay

Example sentences for: malay

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

Subsequent British advisers served on a consultative State council alongside the Malay ruler, chiefs, and Chinese kapitans.
Japan coveted Malay’s natural resources, namely rubber, tin, and oil, and the port of Singapore through which they passed.
In exchange for helping the regent end a revolt of uppity Malay chiefs, Brooke was made Rajah of Sarawak in 1841, with his capital in Kuching (founded by the Malays just 11 years earlier).
Putting outright, downright grammatical solecisms aside, it would be pertinent to reiterate my own attitude toward usage: as a linguist, I regard usage clinically and would no more criticize a writer or a speaker of any kind of English for “mistakes” than a doctor would criticize a patient for contracting appendicitis or the Malay waste-away; on the other hand, as a writer (albeit a poor one), I attend to matters of style (which includes usage and grammar, of course), not only in others' writing but my own.
To embrace the enlarged territory, the Federation took on the new name of Malaysia in September 1963, but Singapore soon clashed with Kuala Lumpur over Malay privileges that Singapore, with its multiracial policies, sought to dismantle.