How to Use Khmer in a Sentence

Khmer

noun
  • The land is gone, the trust is gone, our Khmer and Native plays have now been taken away.
    — Larissa Fasthorse, Los Angeles Times, 2023-06-21
  • It is known as being the final capital of the Khmer Empire.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 2024-10-30
  • There’s a folk tale about a clever Khmer hero named Thun Chey who brought rice noodles to China.
    — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2024-02-20
  • From there, people informed her about the Arizona Khmer Facebook group.
    — The Arizona Republic, 2023-08-09
  • This medieval site was home to the Angkor or Khmer Empire from the ninth to 15th centuries.
    — Alison Kyra Carter, The Conversation, 2021-05-07
  • His father was marched to a forest and killed, like so many victims of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
    — Sun Narin, New York Times, 2025-04-07
  • The same thing happened in Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge were in power, and elsewhere.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2024-03-11
  • The Marines ran into a Khmer Rouge ambush; 15 of them were killed and 49 wounded.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 2024-10-02
  • The city of Angkor Wat was the capital of the Khmer kingdom from the ninth to the fifteenth century.
    — Discover Magazine, 2013-11-05
  • When the family fled the Khmer Rouge, this sausage-making kept the family alive during lean times in a Thai refugee camp.
    — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 2023-04-01
  • 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
  • That means the richness of the area’s food, history and culture—particularly from smaller language groups like Khmer and Lao—risks being left out.
    — David Austin, Fortune Asia, 2024-07-30
  • Many of these arts are in danger of being lost in the years since the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by Maoist Khmer Rouge.
    — Oscar Espinosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-05-01
  • McKay eventually escaped to the countryside, where he was apparently killed by the Khmer Rouge.
    — Roberto Loiederman, Baltimore Sun, 2025-01-11
  • Davis received an Excel spreadsheet in English and Khmer, the language most widely spoken in Cambodia.
    — Steve Suo, ProPublica, 2025-06-05
  • Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge fighter, has long maintained tight control of most of Cambodia's institutions.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2023-07-27
  • Set on the rim of a volcano, the temple is one of the country’s most important monuments erected by the Khmer people, an ethnic group native to what is now Cambodia.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 2024-06-20
  • Was the Khmer zero actually influenced by the Sriwijayan culture?
    — Scientific American, 2022-07-28
  • This type of setting could have helped even the most intransigent of scholars realize that reports of Khmer Rouge atrocities likely had validity.
    — Ray Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 2025-04-03
  • The bombing and invasion ended up expanding the conflict in Southeast Asia and led to a takeover of the country by the murderous Khmer Rouge.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 2023-11-30
  • In some states, as in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, such conflicts wiped out the revolutionary regimes that started them.
    — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 2023-06-20
  • Subsequent research has found large olfactory lexicons in at least forty other languages, among them Fang, Khmer, Swahili, and Zapotec.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 2024-12-23
  • This led to many absurdities—the worship of Mao or, in some misguided circles, admiration for Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge.
    — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2023-06-02
  • In a country where Khmer Rouge leaders were prosecuted on Cambodian soil while former soldiers continue to live beside survivors, healing is remembrance.
    — Victoria Bousis, Rolling Stone, 2025-05-22
  • Cambodia’s most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh has devoted his career to exploring the legacy of the Khmer Rouge through cinema.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 2024-11-26
  • The war itself lasted about a month, after which Chinese forces withdrew, but Vietnam remained in Cambodia for a decade, ensuring the Khmer Rouge never regained power.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Gauguin initially wanted to go to Tonkin—at the 1889 World’s Fair, he had been bowled over by an exhibit of Khmer art—but his application for a colonial job there was rejected.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 2025-07-11
  • Angkor, the medieval capital of the ancient Khmer empire, became the largest pre-industrial city in the world partly because its population was able to tame the uncertainty of nature through creating an elaborate water management network.
    — Dr. Mithu Storoni, TIME, 2024-09-16
  • Beginning in the ’70s, Cambodia endured a period of war and suffered under the cruel Khmer Rouge regime, which rendered the region vulnerable to archaeological looting.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-12-19
  • One of the oldest sacred sites in Southeast Asia—Champasak’s Wat Phou, a Khmer-Hindu temple complex—is actually considered to be the blueprint for Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap.
    — Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025

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