How to Use Diwali in a Sentence

Diwali

noun

• The music: Dugar and her team have fine-tuned the restaurant’s playlist, which was the soundtrack for the Diwali dinner, over the past 10 years.
  — Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The sequence was planned fairly late in the day with a Diwali holiday release date locked.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• 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
• There are so many ways to celebrate Diwali, also called Deepavali or the Festival of Lights.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2023
• The parting bite was coconut fudge finished with edible gold leaf, a nod to the Diwali rituals of eating sweets and giving gifts.
  — Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Listen to a Diwali Story available online from Nov. 12 through 18.
  — courant.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• Spells of rain last week cleaned up the air, but the respite was short-lived as air quality worsened again, aided by firecrackers set off over the weekend to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
  — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
• Vehicle emissions and fireworks set off during the Hindu Diwali festival add to the murk, and the results include coughs, headaches, flight delays and highway pileups.
  — Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• As Paul’s exuberant melodies combine with the boisterous throb of the Diwali riddim, listeners’ hips and waists acquire a sentience of their own, moving as if threatening to secede from the rest of the body.
  — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Celebrating Diwali was an essential part of the curriculum and on birthdays, children would bring in national treats from home.
  — Lakeisha Goedluck, refinery29.com, 22 June 2023
• His family would string holiday lights around their yard in late October or early November for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights that welcomes the new year.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• During Diwali, originally a harvest festival, lamps are lit to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• The actual significance of Diwali is good overcoming evil, and light dispelling darkness and ignorance.
  — Parizaad Khan Sethi, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2023
• The film released unusually on Sunday, Nov. 12, to coincide with India’s biggest festival Diwali.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024