Mumbai

in a sentence

We are not talking of the pagoda of Pillaji, but of the pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay.  (source) Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1873

They were thought to be behind the terrible Mumbai massacre of 2008.†  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

Baba told me stories of his travels to India and Russia, the people he had met, like the armless, legless couple in Bombay who'd been married forty-seven years and raised eleven children.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

Taiwan, Bangkok, Saudi Arabia, Bombay, Paris, Berlin.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

Subjects had been carted in from provinces as far-reaching as Mumbai and Singapore to act as guinea pigs for the antidote testing.†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

Part of the dowry was the Port of Bombay in India....' " He laughed.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

It's true that the crackdown in Mumbai drove some brothels underground.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

I want to tell him that when I was a girl in Hasnapur only playboys in Bombay movies wore bathrobes.†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

I am Bombay born and Bombay bred, and what is New York but Mumbai Lite?†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

You wouldn't see the likes of this in Bombay or the Bowery of New York itself.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

Of course, many older residents of Clarkston didn't want their town to become New York City or Mumbai.†  (source) Warren St. John, Outcasts United, 2009

It happened in Matheran, not far from Bombay, a small hill station with some monkeys but no tea estates.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Then Jakarta, Seoul and Mumbai.†  (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010