Example sentences for: nehru

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

  • Nehru’s Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.

  • In jail at the same time, for “incitement to rebellion,” was Congress Party member Jawaharlal Nehru, who was British-educated but also a Brahman intellectual, as his honorary title of Pandit suggested.

  • Dylan, though shaken by the fury of his fans, pressed ahead, trading his work shirt and jeans for a velveteen Nehru jacket and playing amplified rock 'n' roll.

  • Mizrahi put doormen in "understated" four-button suits, bellboys in Nehru jackets, and receptionists in "baby-blue twin sets."

  • Egalitarian and agnostic, Nehru passed laws against the injustice of the caste system, child-marriage, and the treatment of women in Hindu households, but century-old customs die hard: before his death in 1964, he asked that his ashes be scattered in the Yamuna river at Delhi and the Ganga at Allahabad, and without ritual.


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