Sample Sentences forKolkata (auto-selected)
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We landed in Kolkata just before the monsoon rains began.Kolkata = a major city in eastern India
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He had resolved to follow the supposed robber to Calcutta, and farther, if necessary. (source)Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
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That's not Italy they have upstairs, that's Calcutta.† (source)
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Pappachi agreed to let her spend the summer with a distant aunt who lived in Calcutta.† (source)
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Gold-stitched tapestries, which Baba had bought in Calcutta, lined the walls; a crystal chandelier hung from the vaulted ceiling.† (source)
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Rumor had it that the bar was named after a section of an Old Earth city-some said Chicago, USA, others were sure it was Calcutta, AIS-but only Stan Leweski, owner and great-grandson of the founder, knew for sure, and Stan had never revealed its secret.† (source)
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According to the most plausible version of what transpired, a clerk rushed into the chambers of Sir Andrew Waugh, India's surveyor general, and exclaimed that a Bengali computer named Radhanath Sikhdar, working out of the Survey's Calcutta bureau, had "discovered the highest mountain in the world."† (source)
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Sonagachi, which means "golden tree," is a sprawling red-light district in Kolkata.† (source)
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You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta.† (source)
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Thus traffickers instead began shipping young flesh to Kolkata, where they could get a better price.† (source)
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Anand Ghoshe, a Bengali from Calcutta, had been posted to Madras by the Indian Railways.† (source)
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But I hated everything else about being in Kolkata.† (source)
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JAMIE Can't expect us to live in the Black Hole of Calcutta.† (source)
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Apne Aap whisked Naina off to a hospital in Kolkata, where she was treated for severe injuries and a morphine addiction.† (source)
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Mr. Ayers would have to walk through this Calcutta each time he goes from his apartment to the studio, and I know he'll have plenty to say about it.† (source)
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Apne Aap is based in Kolkata, the city formerly known as Calcutta, but its founder—a determined former journalist named Ruchira Gupta—grew up partly in Forbesgunge.† (source)
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