How to Use Indonesian in a Sentence

Indonesian

noun
  • But sulit in Indonesian means difficult, which feels like a great metaphor for the paradox of being trans.
    — Meredith Talusan, Harper's BAZAAR, 2023-05-31
  • Hughes-Castleberry: There are very few records about him, and most are in Indonesian.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2023-04-15
  • The floors of the Indonesian Hospital in the city were covered in blood, with bodies wrapped in shrouds laying on the floor in hallways.
    — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 2025-03-20
  • Four people were killed, according to the Indonesian Hospital, where the bodies were taken.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 2025-05-10
  • The move came after heavy fighting and bombardment in northern Gaza, where the Indonesian Hospital is based.
    — NBC News, 2023-11-24
  • Guests can request Indonesian for breakfast, Italian for lunch, or Japanese for dinner.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 2024-08-06
  • The Indonesian Mission to the United Nations would say only that the mission has been in touch with the committee.
    — Dera Menra Sijabat, Washington Post, 2023-03-31
  • The source of the strike on the Indonesian Hospital could not be independently verified, because heavy fighting raged around it.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2023-11-21
  • With no windows, the gloomy, gray building looming four stories above the rice fields in a remote village in Indonesian Borneo resembles nothing more than a prison.
    — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 2024-04-02
  • The Indonesian Stock Exchange announced earlier that trading will be suspended for the rest of the day only if the market falls over 20%.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 2025-04-07
  • The Indonesian Hospital, a stately four-story building, was one of the few structures in the vicinity still standing, though it, too, had reportedly been shelled.
    — Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 2025-04-18
  • Nesi’s prose, translated from Indonesian into English by Lara Norgaard, is succinct and polished, matter-of-fact even.
    — Nate Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 2025-05-01
  • The last time executions took place was July 2016, when an Indonesian and three foreigners were executed.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2025-05-15
  • Multiple people, some with critical injuries, were transported to Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, the ministry said.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 2025-03-15
  • Indonesian Ambassador Heri Akhmadi told The Japan Times the ships are a priority for President Prabowo Subianto.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Since then, the Israeli military has facilitated and secured the transfer of the hospital's operations to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, at the request of the Palestinians.
    — Amelie Botbol, Fox News, 2025-01-21
  • The Indonesian Olympic Committee put Nusantara forward for 2032, but the bid did not advance far, perhaps because Nusantara is still under construction.
    — Blythe Lawrence, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • At least 10 other projects using this same technology are already under development, according to the Indonesian Nickel Mining Association.
    — Rebecca Tan, Dera Menra Sijabat and Joshua Irwandi, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-05-12
  • While analyzing nearly 3,800 hours of video footage, scientists observed the beatboxing-like vocalizations in two separate groups of wild orangutans—one in Indonesian Borneo and the other in Sumatra, Indonesia.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-06-29

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