How to Use Hindi in a Sentence

Hindi

noun
  • The names and ages of the 58 people who died are inscribed in Hindi.
    Sameer Yasir Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Both the Tamil and Hindi films have been written by Kanagaraj.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The Hindi remake of Vikram Vedha, has also had a dismal show at the box office.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In one video, a man in a powder blue blazer rattles off this news, switching between Hindi and English.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The app, whose name is a derogatory Hindi phrase for Muslim women, encouraged users to bid on the women in a fake auction.
    NBC News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The Hindi film has roughly grossed $5.7 million globally on day one of the release and made $4.9 million in the Indian market.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Her mother, a homemaker who spoke no English, mailed her three-line recipes in Hindi with sparse instructions: A little of this masala.
    Mayukh Sen, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But employees reply in their own text boxes: Old Hindi songs.
    Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • According to a decade-old census, Hindi was not the majority language, even though it was spoken by 44% of the people.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The band’s individual influences range from Sam Cooke to Hindi film music to Bangkok surf rock.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • One such policy is the promotion of Hindi as the sole official language of India.
    Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Apple recently announced plans to add Hindi to its Translate app.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 June 2024
  • Nearby, people sit on the sidewalk speaking languages like Hindi and Russian.
    Paulina Villegas Luis Antonio Rojas, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • First-rate, character-rich, lively legal drama, in Hindi and English, often in the same sentence.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Ze, who worked as a translator, speaks five languages including Hindi.
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • Last year, the railways introduced a new collision prevention system known as Kavach, the Hindi word for armor.
    Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
  • The film is being shot simultaneously in the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • That’s when another worker, according to the suit, happened by and heard Varshney speaking Hindi.
    Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 31 July 2023
  • Chandamama is a term of endearment toward the Moon in Hindi and other regional languages and is also used in nursery rhymes.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Without inspiring heroism or tragedy in the narrative and the protagonist, All India Rank manages to engage and does so in one of the warmest ways seen in Hindi cinema.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This led to a great deal of bitterness and resentment among the Punjabi-speaking Hindu community, who opted for Hindi as a way of opposing that demand.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Bharat is also the Hindi word for India and is used interchangeably – both feature on Indian passports for example.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • For example, in one 2015 study, English speakers most easily heard spoken Irish as song, followed by Hindi and Croatian.
    Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • For instance, the ganja immortalized in reggae lyrics got its name from the Hindi word for cannabis, gāṁjā, after Indian laborers were taken to Jamaica in the 19th century.
    Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • An Indian American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a Huntsville missile defense contractor after he was heard speaking Hindi on the telephone.
    Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 31 July 2023
  • The initial burst of productions will be in the Hindustani (combining Hindi and Urdu) language that is understood across the subcontinent.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
  • While there are many releases scheduled for every week in December, there are three major Hindi, and one major pan-Indian film set for theatrical releases in the last month of 2023.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Bhardwaj, who writes poetry in Hindi in his spare time, has also used Instabase to translate poems from other languages such as Arabic, and to create first drafts of English translations of his own verse.
    Sarah McBride, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • The channel carries a range of inspiring Indian stories, Hindi shows and blockbuster Bollywood movies.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
  • It’s laced with references to Sanskrit classics, Bollywood movies, song lyrics, prayers and chants, and contemporary Hindi and Urdu novelists.
    Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2023

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