How to Use Hindu in a Sentence

Hindu

1 of 2 noun
  • The Hindu rope plant has curly, glossy leaves while the hoya linearis dangles in long flowing strands.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Khanna, who is Hindu, came up with the idea with Rizvi’s mother, Suraiya.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • At the Hindu Temple in Canton, there will be evening prayers in response to the eclipse.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The first is electoral, the creation of a consolidated Hindu vote bank.
    — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The temple, known as a mandir, is one of only a handful of Hindu places of worship in Indiana.
    — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025
  • She was raised in the Hindu faith in Southern California.
    — CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • 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
  • Thursday’s floods struck during an annual Hindu pilgrimage in the area.
    — Muhammad Sajjad, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Worshipers were seen praying at Hindu temples, mosques and Sikh gurdwaras ahead of its landing.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the root of the clashes is a dispute over a border through a strip of jungle and rice farms where ancient Khmer-Hindu era temples are set.
    — Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But India is also unique, in that Hindu culture places rivers at the center of religious beliefs.
    — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 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
  • Some of yoga’s most familiar poses are the warrior asanas, derived from Hindu mythology.
    — Paula Chesley, STAT, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • And today is the celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Meghalaya is 75% Christian in a country that is almost 80% Hindu.
    — Deepa Bharath, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 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
  • In north India, Hindu nationalists clambered atop a mosque to plant the Hindu saffron flag.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The animatrons, crafted from fiberglass, iron and rubber, are intended to take the place of live elephants in Hindu temples.
    — ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • For the beginning of the Hindu ceremony, Tiwinkle had a grand entrance as a string quartet played.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Worshipers had gathered for weekly prayers and a community meal, according to The Hindu.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the legend goes, when Zoroastrian refugees came ashore in western India, a local Hindu ruler greeted them with a vessel filled to the brim with milk.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • It's sometimes used as an honor in Hindu culture and is another name for the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025

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
  • 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
  • His family were Brahmins, members of the highest Hindu caste.
    — Steven Mufson, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • To be born male and live as feminine is understood, in certain Hindu frameworks, as embodying that same threshold.
    — Vogue, 1 June 2026
  • My Parsi grandmother, who married a Hindu man, was also denied entry.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • Many of them are dedicated to Shiva, a powerful Hindu deity.
    — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Talks on the Hindu philosophical doctrine of Vedanta are part of the experience.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Hindu priests consider such numerical patterns as auspicious as well.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The largest Hindu temple outside India has been constructed in New Jersey.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 10 Oct. 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 couple were married in two ceremonies that incorporated both their Hindu and Christian cultures.
    — Maya Pow, Peoplemag, 15 Oct. 2023
  • According to certain Hindu texts, menstruating women should be cut off from the rest of the household and avoid participating in ritual life.
    — Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gabbard's team and a spokesperson for SIF called the reporting anti-Hindu religious bigotry.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • Rooted in Hindu philosophy, Kundalini is a form of divine energy.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Ayodhya was the crucible that led to the ascendancy of Hindu nationalism in India.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • To dissidents, she has been seen as a hero putting her life on the line; to Modi’s supporters, as a dangerous subversive who is anti-national and anti-Hindu.
    — Anderson Tepper, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Critics argue that the Modi government has taken a more anti-democratic and Hindu nationalist turn.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • The grooms changed from Tarun Tahiliani sherwanis into tuxedos between their Hindu and Christian ceremonies.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 5 Oct. 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 Mamdani campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on these anti-Hindu accusations.
    — Emily Chang, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, is the country’s first Asian American and Hindu American second lady.
    — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • His wife, Usha Vance, who grew up in Southern California and is of Indian descent, was raised in a Hindu household.
    — Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Hindu patients can shift the room to a mandir, modeled after the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills.
    — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • As the first Hindu member of the House, Gabbard was sworn into office with her hand on the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu devotional work.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 May 2026
  • As the first Hindu member of the House, Gabbard was sworn into office with her hand on the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu devotional work.
    — Meg Kinnard, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • 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

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