Example sentences for: sasaks

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

  • The beliefs of the animist-Hindu Balinese and the animist-Muslim Sasaks, however, were not always in conflict; there was a lot of intermarriage.

  • For many years, the island of Lombok was the domain of the Sasaks, a people who had come from the Asian mainland by way of Java and Bali.

  • An active volcano (although there has been no major eruption for a century), the mountain is sacred to both Sasaks and Balinese, who make pilgrimages to its crater lake and hot springs.

  • At the end of the 19th century, the Dutch took advantage of the conflict raging between the Sasaks and Balinese, joining in on the Sasak side and then taking complete control.

  • The Balinese and Sasaks hurl packets of cooked rice at each other in the October perang ketupet festival.


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