Sample Sentences forHinduism (editor-reviewed)
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Hindu/Muslim discord resulted in partitioning and violence in post-colonial India.Hindu = those who believe in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)
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The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs. (source)Hindu = related to Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)
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Hinduism, so solid from a distance, is riven into sects and clans, which radiate and join, and change their names according to the aspect from which they are approached. (source)Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India
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...the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions. This, in a holy nutshell, is Hinduism, (source)
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Both of the two great Oriental religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, are Indo-European in origin.† (source)
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A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy.† (source)
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Good Hindu women fast all day to show their devotion to their husbands.† (source)
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Millions of Muslims crossed from India, and Hindus traveled in the other direction.† (source)
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He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.† (source)
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They sang not even to the God who confronted them, but to a saint; they did not one thing which the nonHindu would feel dramatically correct; this approaching triumph of India was a muddle (as we call it), a frustration of reason and form.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonhindu means not and reverses the meaning of hindu. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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He had been marveling at the soft brown peaks of the tightly packed Hindu Kush far beneath.† (source)
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The early Hindus believed in living life to the fullest.† (source)
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Hinduism has similar problems, not to mention vicious burnings of brides by their new families, but Hindu women in India are more autonomous and more likely to be educated than their Muslim women neighbors.† (source)
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baboo, babu, n. A Hindu title of respect paid to gentlemen, equivalent to master, sir.† (source)
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They multiply faster than Hindus.† (source)
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"Next year, assuming my lungs hold out, we'll study Taoism, Hinduism, and Judaism together—" The Old Man coughed and then started to laugh, which caused him to cough again.† (source)
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