Example sentences for: malayan

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

  • Then, at about the same time when colored was anathematized (despite the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has still not changed its name), black was legislated by that community of speakers to supplant Negro and colored, though I cannot recall any riders requiring a capital B . ( Cape Colored —or, more properly, Coloured —is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.”

  • They were the first victims in a guerrilla war launched from jungle enclaves by communist rebels using the arms caches left there by the disbanded Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army.

  • Some turned to the radical solutions of the Chinese-led Malayan Communist Party (MCP).

  • Templer stepped up self-government, increased Chinese access to full citizenship and admitted them for the first time to the Malayan Civil Service.

  • From 1943, Chinese communists led the resistance in the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army, aided by the British to prepare an Allied return.


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