How to Use Buddha in a Sentence

Buddha

noun
  • Spa music played as water flowed on a Buddha screen saver.
    — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 2023-09-19
  • Then follow Jesus, Buddha or live your life nobly and humbly.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2024-06-08
  • Zion takes cover behind a statue of Buddha in the lily pad pond, and a corpse floats by.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 2025-02-17
  • Their 1973 signing to Buddha Records gave them a fresh start.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2024-06-12
  • This time, though, a guest prays for a loved one’s safety to an on-property statue of the Buddha.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 2025-02-11
  • What Epictetus and the Buddha both knew was that nothing arises by itself.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond these rooms is a meditation space/guest room with an enormous Buddha.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2025-05-31
  • Sun Wukong, is a trickster archetype who becomes immortal but rebels against Buddha.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 2024-09-04
  • In the middle of the game, the bartender carried around a large golden Buddha for contestants to tap on the head for luck.
    — David Allan, CNN Money, 2025-05-31
  • The gods also shield the Dharma, the teachings of the Buddha, from external threats.
    — ArsTechnica, 2025-05-17
  • Kim, 56, wore a peach-colored kaftan decorated with a print of the Buddha.
    — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 2023-08-04
  • The true purpose of the Buddha Dharma is to awaken us to our Buddha-nature.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 2023-07-25
  • In another video, a man who dressed up as a Buddha was taken away by two police officers near the same location.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 2024-10-28
  • The former features a 39-foot, golden Buddha at the top of the stairs along with panoramic vistas of the coastline.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 2025-02-21
  • Then came Bernardo, who one summer in Rome offered me Little Buddha.
    — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-08-07
  • Another piece of art, made of stone in the seventh century and named Head of Buddha, will also be returned.
    — Maysoon Khan, Fortune, 2023-12-18
  • In Japan, for example, at least one temple has traded human monks for robot monks programmed to share the lessons of the Buddha.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 2025-01-31
  • This massive Buddha is covered from head to toe (all 46 meters) in gold leaf and is one of the largest Buddha statues in the world.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 2023-09-08
  • Guest judge Buddha Lo — two-time Top Chef winner and finicky food enthusiast — loves the concept.
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 2025-05-09
  • Miso chicken Buddha bowl Try this delicious miso chicken Buddha bowl to add a healthy meal to your rotation.
    — Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 2025-04-07
  • Move Buddha, a site that helps people compare moving costs and save money on big moves, used search data to find the suburbs and smaller cities that are most in demand this year.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 2025-02-17
  • Mike recommends the new reissue of the Buddha Machine music box from FM3.
    — WIRED, 2023-11-09
  • In the whole Mogao Caves area, only the icons of Buddha and bodhisattvas maintained their dignity and self-possession.
    — Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 2024-08-18
  • My grandfather still decorates his home with Tibetan prayer flags, statues of the Buddha, and Judaic art.
    — Literary Hub, 2025-06-12
  • Beyond the urban sprawl, head to Lantau Island for misty trails and spiritual calm beneath the serene gaze of the Big Buddha.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • It’s crammed with posters, cassette tapes, a Buddha incense holder, and even a guitar with a moth design on its neck, which means Joel at least attempted to honor his promise in the finale.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 2025-04-14
  • From the weathered woods on the steps to a Buddha statue in the middle of a garden, the place delivers Far East charm without losing any of its Caribbean core.
    — Demarco Williams, Forbes, 2024-09-06
  • Learning about the Buddha’s Middle Way, a way of life that recognizes and threads the extremes of asceticism and hedonism, provides a way of living life in balance.
    — Mitch Hendrickson, The Conversation, 2024-07-29
  • Afterall, this floating ice shelf is comprised of snow that dropped before the rise and fall of Rome, before Jesus or the Buddha were born, before the invention of the alphabet.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2024-02-07
  • Going further back, a sun disk hovered over the ancient Egyptian god Ra, and in Eastern religions a nimbus halo appeared over the Buddha and the Hindu deities.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025

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