How to Use Shiva in a Sentence

Shiva

noun
  • As the story is told, Vishnu disguised himself as her husband Jalandhar so that the god Shiva could kill the demon in a fight.
    Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The film revisits the folk tale of Kannappa, an atheist hunter who became a devotee of Hindu god Shiva and plucked out his eyes in an act of extreme devotion.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
  • In Hindu mythology, the god Shiva tied the waterway to Earth with his matted locks; a priest told me that to approach the temple via the tangle of pedestrian lanes that have surrounded it for centuries was to climb those locks.
    Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This was because Jalandhar, born from Shiva’s third eye, had previously won a boon from the god Brahma that his wife’s chastity would keep him invincible in any battle.
    Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The evening also commemorated Gil Shiva, posthumously, with the Chairman’s Award.
    Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The deity Shiva was reportedly a stoner, and devotees honored him by stuffing charas into clay or stone pipes called chillums, and entering psychotropic trances.
    Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • His personal collection of historic locks spans eras and continents: an Indian lock featuring a sculpture of Shiva and a Venezuelan motorbike lock and a bulky Soviet dual-custody padlock requiring two bureaucrats with two sets of keys to open.
    Hazlitt, 5 Apr. 2023
  • As the story is told, Vishnu disguised himself as her husband Jalandhar so that the god Shiva could kill the demon in a fight.
    Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The film revisits the folk tale of Kannappa, an atheist hunter who became a devotee of Hindu god Shiva and plucked out his eyes in an act of extreme devotion.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
  • In Hindu mythology, the god Shiva tied the waterway to Earth with his matted locks; a priest told me that to approach the temple via the tangle of pedestrian lanes that have surrounded it for centuries was to climb those locks.
    Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This was because Jalandhar, born from Shiva’s third eye, had previously won a boon from the god Brahma that his wife’s chastity would keep him invincible in any battle.
    Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The evening also commemorated Gil Shiva, posthumously, with the Chairman’s Award.
    Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The deity Shiva was reportedly a stoner, and devotees honored him by stuffing charas into clay or stone pipes called chillums, and entering psychotropic trances.
    Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • His personal collection of historic locks spans eras and continents: an Indian lock featuring a sculpture of Shiva and a Venezuelan motorbike lock and a bulky Soviet dual-custody padlock requiring two bureaucrats with two sets of keys to open.
    Hazlitt, 5 Apr. 2023

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