Example sentences for: sepoy

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

  • A motley crowd is hurrying by--workers in dungarees; a yogi with his followers; a noblewoman in purdah in palanquin; a group of nautch girls, attractive in their aniline-dyed dresses and bright bandanas, their bangles jingling and their long, shampooed hair streaming in the breeze; a sepoy all smart in khaki on his horse, his jodhpurs trim and neat; a scholarly pundit; a mahout on his elephant, ambling like a juggernaut.

  • In 1857, he took an armed part in the suppression of the Sepoy uprising and then rewarded himself with a vacation in America and Europe.

  • Military: sepoy, subahdar


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