Example sentences for: tibetans

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

  • He insists that Tibetans abjure violence, threatening to abdicate if Tibetans take arms against the Chinese.

  • The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after the Tibetans' failed uprising against the Chinese communists, who had taken over in 1951.

  • Many of the people you will see circumambulating Boudhanath are Tibetans rather than Nepalis, and those with long braids and wild costumes are usually Tibetans who have only recently arrived in Kathmandu.

  • Other temples, reopened since Beijing granted the Tibetans greater religious freedom in 1980, are now on the itinerary as well.

  • From blue-eyed and sometimes red-haired Kashmiris and the Chinese-Tibetans from Sikkim or Darjeeling, through all the shades of coffee of the heartland, right down to dark-skinned, often curly-haired, Dravidians from southern India, you soon realize there’s no such thing as a “typical” Indian.


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