How to Use Bengali in a Sentence

Bengali

noun
  • She’s based in Kolkata and most of her content is in Bengali.
    — Ernestine Siu ayushi Jindal, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There were boy and girl elves there, Bengali and Arab and Polish and Black elves among them, a group as varied as the line outside.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 2024-12-22
  • But finding staff who speak Cantonese or other Asian languages like Bengali is even more difficult.
    — Rong Xiaoqing, Curbed, 2023-08-21
  • David Bengali's crisp, blue-sky projections clash with the set's earthy tones, while the varied circus animals lack any visual cohesion.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 2024-03-22
  • For Bengali Americans who grew up in the United States, the festival is a link back to their heritage.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 2023-10-21
  • For two minutes, gesticulating to the crowd and to his heart, Mr. Khan recited Bengali verse.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 2023-06-14
  • In Act Two, there is a stunner of a video montage, credited to David Bengali, that looks like it was only created last week.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 2025-04-04
  • In contrast, the Bengali filmmaker appeared uncomfortable on the podium.
    — Hazlitt, 2023-07-12
  • The next three Indian languages that commissions are likely to be in are Bengali, Marathi and Kannada.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2024-01-31
  • During the interviews, a Google exec stated that their AI app was able to engage in Bengali even though it was said to not have been data trained in that language.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2023-04-19
  • Later, one with a Bengali flag, and another with the U.S. flag, led them onto the sidewalk as a candlelight vigil proceeded alongside the lake.
    — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 2024-07-25
  • Its nine stories concern the complicated Bengali families in India and America, and Lahiri’s elegant, observant prose is constantly alert to the ways that lore and folkways shape or abrade relationships.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2025-04-14
  • Though Sen was a prodigious mathematician in boyhood, an early love of the Bengali waterways led him to an interest in their economic importance, and to Adam Smith’s analyses of the role rivers and canals played in developing the market economy.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2022-01-21
  • Spector’s script is painstakingly scored here, with the increasingly incendiary comments thread, displayed above the actors in projections by David Bengali, running alongside the committee members’ dialogue with second-to-second precision.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2024-12-16
  • Authorities finally published their findings for Assam this year, and not surprisingly, the majority of those identified as illegally settled in Assam were Bengali Hindus.
    — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 2019-12-20
  • My Bengali grandparents came of age as enthusiastic followers of Gandhi’s independence movement; a family photo from 1940 captures my grandfather as a young economist talking earnestly to the Mahatma at an institute dedicated to rural development.
    — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 2024-06-19

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