Example sentences for: sikhs

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

  • Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus — and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.

  • The one attempt to merge the principles of Hinduism and Islam is that of the Sikhs (“disciples”).

  • Sikhs make up just 2 percent of the population.

  • Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...

  • Many moderate Sikhs seek autonomy; more extreme factions want independence, and have long used violent means to pursue it.)


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