How to Use Hindu in a Sentence

Hindu

1 of 2 noun

• At the Hindu Temple in Canton, there will be evening prayers in response to the eclipse.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
• Khanna, who is Hindu, came up with the idea with Rizvi’s mother, Suraiya.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2024
• The Hindu rope plant has curly, glossy leaves while the hoya linearis dangles in long flowing strands.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• The city’s residents are used to a blanket of smog that blots out the sky and heralds the arrival of the Hindu festival of Diwali.
  — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• In Hindu mythology, a serpent god, Rahu Ketu, wanted to eat the sun — but then his head was cut off.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
• All abused Hindu gods and the warrior king Shivaji; all seemed to come from accounts run by Muslims.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
• Still, Hindu critics have called for boycotts of his films or demanded a ban on their release.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Last month, four idols and masks of Hindu gods were returned to Nepal from the United States by museums and a private collector.
  — Binaj Gurubacharya, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• The first is electoral, the creation of a consolidated Hindu vote bank.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• There was a Hindu festival that day, and a crowd of worshippers had gathered around a temple in the central courtyard.
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
• Hymns burst from the Anglican cathedral nearby, and a clamor of drums and bamboo flutes played outside the Hindu temple.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• The Hindu reported that food will continue to be served to the local community over the next couple of days.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
• Meghalaya is 75% Christian in a country that is almost 80% Hindu.
  — Deepa Bharath, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
• According to other Hindu legends, all nine planets of Vedic astrology are said to live in the belly of the god Ganesha or in the tail of the god Hanuman.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• And today is the celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• Atharva Veda, a sacred Hindu scripture, classifies cannabis as one of the five most sacred plants on Earth.
  — Arbab Ali & Nadeem Sarwar, Saveur, 18 Apr. 2024
• But India is also unique, in that Hindu culture places rivers at the center of religious beliefs.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• However, it is known that the physicist did study Sanskrit and a number of other languages, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu scripture.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 21 July 2023
• Hemmed in by mountains, Afghanistan has a history of strong earthquakes, many in the rugged Hindu Kush region bordering Pakistan.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• His ancestry was broad: Hindu, Sikh, Christian and, from his mother’s side, Jewish.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• In north India, Hindu nationalists clambered atop a mosque to plant the Hindu saffron flag.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• Worshipers were seen praying at Hindu temples, mosques and Sikh gurdwaras ahead of its landing.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
• Millions of people in India and around the world are celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
• For the beginning of the Hindu ceremony, Tiwinkle had a grand entrance as a string quartet played.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
• The story is based around the legend of Hindu deity Hanuman, the Hindu monkey-human hybrid deity.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
• The night of the event, as guests contended with the Mumbai traffic, Dugar lit dozens of diyas — festive tea lights that symbolize the victory of light over darkness in Hindu culture — that lined the doorway.
  — Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The film revisits the folk tale of Kannappa, an atheist hunter who became a devotee of Hindu god Shiva and plucked out his eyes in an act of extreme devotion.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
• Luckily there are as many dimensions to the Indonesian island as the number of gods worshiped in its Hindu temples.
  — Chris Schalkx, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024
• In the Hindu religion, practiced by more than a billion people worldwide, cows are sacred symbols of the divine and are therefore not eaten.
  — Emma Glassman-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Implicit censorship When a film veers from these formulas, Hindu hard-liners have quickly mobilized in protest.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2024

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Hindu

2 of 2 adjective

• There were Hindu and Muslim parties who sued for control of the site where the mosque was.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
• On our list were two giant temples: Borobudur, the largest Buddhist temple in the world, and Prambanan, one of the world’s largest Hindu temples.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• There was the Hindu god Ganesha below his left shoulder, his ex-wife below his right.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Last year, when Modi, flanked by Hindu priests, unveiled the new sculpture, viewers were shocked: the lions were snarling.
  — Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• The setting is Mumbai, and the Hindu myth of the monkey-god Hanuman provides the film with both its title and its heavy-handed central metaphor.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• The Meiteis are largely Hindu and the Kukis largely Christian, but the violence has been more along ethnic lines than religious.
  — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• His family were Brahmins, members of the highest Hindu caste.
  — Steven Mufson, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The largest Hindu temple outside India has been constructed in New Jersey.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The Babri Mosque, which once stood on the site, was destroyed in 1992 by Hindu activists, unleashing waves of sectarian violence that left thousands dead.
  — Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• As a place of Hindu worship, Muktinath offers a central shrine to the deity Vishnu as well as 108 water spouts under which pilgrims must pass.
  — Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
• Despite his efforts to keep his son Prahlad from worshiping Vishnu, the Hindu protector of the universe, Prahlad persisted.
  — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2024
• The majority of Nepal’s 29 million people are Hindu, and every neighborhood has a temple that houses such items.
  — Binaj Gurubacharya, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• The grooms changed from Tarun Tahiliani sherwanis into tuxedos between their Hindu and Christian ceremonies.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• While Modi’s supporters credit him with making India a presence on the global stage, his critics accuse him of fanning the flames of Hindu nationalism in India and abroad.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 June 2023
• As a result, the Bharatiya Janata Party can now win elections in most of the country’s regions, even ones historically hostile to Hindu nationalists.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
• The couple were married in two ceremonies that incorporated both their Hindu and Christian cultures.
  — Maya Pow, Peoplemag, 15 Oct. 2023
• Ayodhya was the crucible that led to the ascendancy of Hindu nationalism in India.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• To bless the new tunnel and train, officials conducted a puja, or Hindu religious ritual, to bring good luck, after the train successfully pulled into the station at Howrah Maidan.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
• Smith’s two videos, one accompanied by a slowly moving disco ball, also celebrate the music of jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane and her Hindu spiritual journey.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Critics argue that the Modi government has taken a more anti-democratic and Hindu nationalist turn.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 June 2023
• The approach targets those most disadvantaged by centuries-old caste hierarchies that long ruled nearly every aspect of Hindu religious and social life.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• Given meditation's ancient Hindu roots in the practice of yoga, the modern technique of yoga nidra, also called yogic sleep, is a fitting connection point between the worlds of meditation and yoga.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
• The prime minister’s central ideological project is the creation of a Hindu nationalist country where non-Hindu people are, at best, second-class citizens.
  — Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2023
• Rooted in Hindu philosophy, Kundalini is a form of divine energy.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 6 Sep. 2023
• The variety of specific forms mean that worshippers can find their preferred deity to pray to, concentrating the vast religious diversity of Hindu life into a centralized complex.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2023
• To celebrate the day on June 21, yoga gatherings are held in many parts of the world, but there are also devoted yogis who refuse to participate, saying the holiday is designed to covertly promote a right-wing Hindu fundamentalist agenda.
  — Jeremy David Engels, Fortune Well, 21 June 2023
• Modi himself chose to contest the parliamentary elections from Varanasi, an ancient city with countless temples that is generally recognized as the most important center of Hindu identity.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Advertisement The approach targets those most disadvantaged by centuries-old caste hierarchies that long ruled nearly every aspect of Hindu religious and social life.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Modi’s party has pushed for a more explicitly Hindu vision of India’s identity in contrast to the post-independence leaders who saw the country more as a secular, multicultural democracy.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• The temple consecration follows a number of other major political moves implemented by Modi in his efforts to advance his government’s Hindu nationalist agenda.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024