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

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