How to Use Tamil in a Sentence

Tamil

noun
  • Nor the first time that Tamil Nadu seemed like the best launchpad for it.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • These hills are in Tamil Nadu and a roughly 1,600-mile drive south from New Delhi.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
  • Chennai is in the state of Tamil Nadu, where Tamil is the official language.
    Karthik Chidambaram, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Chandran, who is of British Tamil heritage, will play the boys’ mother Amma.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 2 July 2024
  • So far, Gingee leaf-litter skinks have been found in two nearby sites of eastern Tamil Nadu, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • All three films were distributed in Tamil Nadu by Red Giant.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The company’s three co-founders, who hail from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were looking for easy ways to get a taste of home.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 25 June 2024
  • Plus, the movie was released in Hindi, English, Tamil, and Telugu, to reach a wider audience.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The film is due to release in November during the Deepavali holiday frame in Tamil, Telugu and a few other languages.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
  • In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, for example, temperatures are already soaring at 104°F.
    Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
  • As a young actor of Eelam Tamil descent who's always been interested in the industry, Tharan has long yearned to see more women who look like her on the screen.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 8 June 2023
  • The film is being shot simultaneously in the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • In some traditions, such as bharatanatyam, from Tamil Nadu, temple dancers were typically of low caste, but, in the remade, classicized version of the form, bharatanatyam became largely the province of bourgeois Brahmin women.
    Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Many of the travelers were migrant workers, en route to Chennai, an urban metropolis in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officials said.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • The Sri Lankan government’s elimination of the secessionist Tamil Tigers as a military force in 2009 is often cited as an example of the successful use of force against a terrorist group.
    Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Composer Alpha Something took inspiration from classic Tamil cinema for these bombastic pop songs, channeling the themes of specific composers and scoring trends over the years to match each decade in the game.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Neighbouring Tamil Nadu state announced that travelers coming from Kerala would be subjected to medical tests and those with flu symptoms would be isolated.
    Reuters, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Her passion is learning to reinvent Tamil cuisine by traveling across Tamil Nadu, India learning from local communities.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Based in Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, not far from where he was raised, the foundation is one of India’s most prominent centers of innovation, applying science and technology to assist women and rural development.
    Keith Schneider, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The major regional parties, with influence in states such as Bihar, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, are also family firms, with leadership often passing from father to son.
    Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • It was eventually wiped out in 2009, after a brutal military offensive by Sri Lankan government forces into territory the Tamil Tigers controlled.
    Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
  • This initiative, which supports multiple languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, leverages a diverse network of academicians, researchers, tech platforms, and fact checkers.
    Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024

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