Example sentences for: sikh

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

  • This is the culturally savvy marketing plan Gopal described to the Wall Street Journal , by which Indipop, a hybrid of Indian music, rock, rap, and reggae, will conquer America, through the person of Daler Mehndi, a 31-year-old Sikh who used to drive a taxi in San Francisco.

  • Hindus then went on the rampage through Sikh communities, resulting in a round of communal violence.

  • Newt Gingrich held a Sikh fund-raising event last year in California.

  • Dhoni or doni `fishing or coastal trading vessel,' for example, may have entered English from Hindi, Marathi, Kanarese (or Canarese), or Telugu; dinghy `small boat' from Hindi or Bengali; kathiawari `breed of horses' from Hindi or Gujurati; khuskhus `aromatic grass, vetiver' from Hindi or Persian; kirpan `Sikh dagger' from Hindi or Punjabi; and nagkasser or nagkesar `tree'.

  • It was her order to the Indian Army in 1984 to attack armed militants in the Sikhs’ sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, resulting in 800 dead, that led to her assassination in Delhi five months later by two Sikh members of her security guards.


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