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Example sentences for "banana leaves"

  • Here the sick are wrapped in banana leaves, after having been smeared with a certain unguent.

  • Through a rear door come odors of unknown known flowers and the cool brilliant green of banana leaves.

  • Cabbage and cocoa palms overlook all the streets, bending above almost every structure, whether hut or public building;--everywhere you see the splitted green of banana leaves.

  • A number of sticks are laid upon the ground over the grave, the sticks crossing each other so as to form a rude ground platform (this is not done by any particular person), and these sticks are covered with banana leaves.

  • The pigs are killed upon these banana leaves by the pig-killer and his helpers, and the killed pigs are then placed in circles around the platform or tree, and are there cut up.

  • The pieces of each pig are placed on banana leaves, by the side of the spot where the body had lain, and all the pieces are distributed among the male guests.

  • The women took the entrails of the pigs, squeezed them out, rolled them up in banana leaves, and made them ready for cooking.

  • Cooking is done with heated stones heaped around the food, which has been previously wrapped up in banana leaves.

  • Now the hot stones are removed with bamboo tongs, and the great flat object, wrapped in banana leaves, is taken out.

  • Shortly afterward followed a unique performance of throwing rice, small bundles of which, wrapped in banana leaves, were lying in readiness on the floor.

  • Boiled rice, a small quantity of salt, some dried fish, and boiled fowl were wrapped in pieces of banana leaves, and two such small parcels were offered on each occasion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banana leaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    banana leaves; believed himself; bronze sword; called upon; cliff dwellings; cloudy weather; compulsory education; giue them; gracious liege; grand thing; nicely browned; out for; secondary consideration; seems advisable; send them; send you; slightly alkaline; small distance; small orifice; still kept; without which; work cited