Passing under hundred-year-old banyans it was impossible to distinguish one's own finger at the distance of two inches.
The majesty of the tropical growth is such that our highest trees would look dwarfed compared with banyans and especially with palms.
Actors waiting in either wings are screened from the sight of the audience by the last of the rows of banyans which run down close to the stream on either side.
Two other sides are shut in by close-set rows of banyans of such size that their roots and down-reaching branches mingle to form almost solid lines of irregular wooden terraces upon which hundreds of spectators may find seats without crowding.
Burton experimented sufficiently for me on the promised word of the Banyans of Kaole and Zanzibar, and waited eleven months before he received the promised articles.
The Banyans exercise, of all other classes, most influence on the trade of Central Africa.
And ain't theseBanyans Indian merchants--subjects of Great Britain?
As the slave's master was one of the wealthy Banyans just referred to, Yoosoof rose at once, and, apologising to the captain for quitting him so hurriedly, left that worthy son of Neptune to cool his indignation in solitude.
Many invested their money in trading voyages; some acted as brokers or banyans for the supply of Indian commodities to the Company's servants; others bought European goods at the public auctions, and supplied the native dealers up country.
At Zanzibar he was the Consul's right-hand man: he ranked above Bombay in the consular boat's crew, and became a terror even to the Banyans who kept slaves.
A flood of moonshine poured into the garden, making the flower-pots gleam brightly and shimmering in the pond; and the banyans were like soft velvet against the luminous sky.
In the interior of such a coral islet, huge banyans and other trees having wide-spreading buttresses are to be found.
On first treading in such a forest, the visitor is much impressed by the imposing appearance and size of the banyans and the buttress-trees.
Banyans are the only class of coloured men who have the ability to be accountants.
And as Hillary passed along by the forestbanyans and saw the deep indigo of the far distant ocean, he stared on the rose-pearl flush of the sea horizon.
Gabrielle could hear the terrible tiki priests chanting and beating drums to their great god Urio Moquru, whose mortal power was represented in monstrous carven wood somewhere near the sacred banyans at the foot of the mountains.
Still the figure danced, and only the echoes of Ulysses' big voice and the screech of disturbed cockatoos in the banyans responded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banyans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
