How to Use Khmer in a Sentence

Khmer

noun

• The Marines ran into a Khmer Rouge ambush; 15 of them were killed and 49 wounded.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
• The land is gone, the trust is gone, our Khmer and Native plays have now been taken away.
  — Larissa Fasthorse, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• This medieval site was home to the Angkor or Khmer Empire from the ninth to 15th centuries.
  — Alison Kyra Carter, The Conversation, 7 May 2021
• The city of Angkor Wat was the capital of the Khmer kingdom from the ninth to the fifteenth century.
  — Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2013
• But the Khmer Rouge’s four-year reign of terror casts a long — and often silent — shadow.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• There’s a folk tale about a clever Khmer hero named Thun Chey who brought rice noodles to China.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• The same thing happened in Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge were in power, and elsewhere.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
• When the family fled the Khmer Rouge, this sausage-making kept the family alive during lean times in a Thai refugee camp.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• From there, people informed her about the Arizona Khmer Facebook group.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• The Arizona Khmer Facebook group brought the two women together.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• The bombing and invasion ended up expanding the conflict in Southeast Asia and led to a takeover of the country by the murderous Khmer Rouge.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• In some states, as in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, such conflicts wiped out the revolutionary regimes that started them.
  — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• Many of these arts are in danger of being lost in the years since the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by Maoist Khmer Rouge.
  — Oscar Espinosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• Set on the rim of a volcano, the temple is one of the country’s most important monuments erected by the Khmer people, an ethnic group native to what is now Cambodia.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 20 June 2024
• That means the richness of the area’s food, history and culture—particularly from smaller language groups like Khmer and Lao—risks being left out.
  — David Austin, Fortune Asia, 30 July 2024
• Many of the characters either survived or were direct descendants of those who survived the Khmer Rouge regime, which killed anywhere from 1.5 to 3 million people.
  — Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Small plates, such as pork chili verde with Khmer grapefruit and mango salad, are served from roving dim-sum-style carts in a pastel dining room flanked by a large tropical mural.
  — Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2023
• The earlier version also referred imprecisely to the number of people killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge fighter, has long maintained tight control of most of Cambodia's institutions.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2023
• Consider the Khmer Rouge of 1970s Cambodia, which, at the peak of its power, was known to kill people for wearing glasses on the theory that glasses signified the elite intellectual class.
  — David Von Drehle, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• The health department is providing the drink test kits to businesses and organizations by way of an online request form, which is available in English, Spanish, Tagalog and Khmer.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Signage in Khmer, English, Chinese and Korean becomes as legible as my abilities allow as my motorbike comes to a halt.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Successive Khmer kings throughout history have added to the Angkor temple complex, hoping to leave their mark and attempting to best their predecessors with varying degrees of success.
  — Chaitali Patel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2024
• Was the Khmer zero actually influenced by the Sriwijayan culture?
  — Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• This led to many absurdities—the worship of Mao or, in some misguided circles, admiration for Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Cambodians typically only eat chickens or ducks around the big national holidays, such as Khmer New Year in early April — but there are at least 50 million birds being raised in people’s yards.
  — Stephanie Nolen Thomas Cristofoletti, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• Those students, who had organized Cambodian associations in the region, helped resettle refugees as hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were forced to flee the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in 1975.
  — Aida Ylanan, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Beginning in the ’70s, Cambodia endured a period of war and suffered under the cruel Khmer Rouge regime, which rendered the region vulnerable to archaeological looting.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Angkor, the medieval capital of the ancient Khmer empire, became the largest pre-industrial city in the world partly because its population was able to tame the uncertainty of nature through creating an elaborate water management network.
  — Dr. Mithu Storoni, TIME, 16 Sep. 2024
• The sole offering at Nika is a traditional Khmer massage, a centuries-old technique incorporating stretching and pressure points for a restorative experience.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024