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Example sentences for "ghee"

Lexicographically close words:
ghastliness; ghastly; ghat; ghats; ghaut; gherkin; gherkins; ghesse; ghests; ghettos
  1. Near the gate are some small shops where one can buy rice, flour, salt, and ghee to eat, or earthen pots for cooking.

  2. The servant then put some ghee on his tongue, and made him swallow it.

  3. He then rubbed his eyelids with ghee (clarified butter) for some time, till he succeeded in opening them, when the eye appeared quite motionless and glazed.

  4. Let me give you a piece of advice; when you next file your irons, either use more ghee or make less noise.

  5. He consumed every day that he could get it, two seers of flour made into cakes, a quarter of a seer of ghee (clarified butter), and a large pot of milk containing upwards of a seer.

  6. Cloth is little prized in this especially bead country, and I had to pay the sum of one dhoti kiniki for one pot of honey and one pot of ghee (clarified butter).

  7. Mrs Awado now came over from Birhamir, bringing a sheep and some ghee as a present for me; but I refused taking anything from the relative of the Abban, and this appeared to grieve her much.

  8. Camels are cured by sheep's head broth, asses by chopping one ear, mules by cutting off the tail, and horses by ghee or a drench of melted fat.

  9. We spread our hides under a tree, and were soon surrounded by Bedouins, who brought milk, sun-dried beef, ghee and honey in one of the painted wooden bowls exported from Cutch.

  10. Cowhides pay half-a-dollar each, sheep and goat's skins four pice, and ghee about one per cent.

  11. Observed in ghee used as lamp-oil, a bubble ascending from the surface of the water on which it floated, met by another descending; the deception of this is perfect.

  12. The presents were of course beggarly, consisting of indifferent oranges, wretched plantains, sugarcane of still worse quality, and ghee of an abominable odour.

  13. Of course a large quantity of ghee is added to it, and at the time of eating milk is taken.

  14. It was performed on so large a scale that he caused reservoirs to be made which were filled with ghee and oil, immense heaps of rice, flour and dhall were piled on the ground.

  15. The body is then covered with a piece of new cloth and laid upon the pyre, the upper and lower part of which is composed of firewood, faggots, and a little sandalwood and ghee to neutralize the effects of effluvia.

  16. The bride gives the groom seven little balls compounded of rice, ghee (clarified butter) and sugar, which he eats.

  17. A pot is partly filled with water, on the top of which ghee (clarified butter) and milk are poured, and then it is placed on the fire.

  18. And when he was going to be ordained, he had a hermitage and a kitchen and a storehouse erected for his own use, and the store filled with ghee and rice, and so was received into the Order.

  19. In drowsy indolence, see him emerge from his treasures of ghee and groceries, among which, scales in hand, he has been patiently squatted since earliest dawn at the terrace of his booth, registering his gains in the daily ledger.

  20. Ghee more than ten years old, the purana ghrita of Sanskrit materia medicas, has a strong odour and the colour of lac.

  21. GHEE (Hindustani ghi), a kind of clarified butter made in the East.

  22. In India ghee is one of the commonest articles of diet, and indeed enters into the composition of everything eaten by the Brahmans.

  23. Old ghee is in special repute among the Hindus as a medicinal agent, and its efficacy as an external application is believed by them to increase with its age.

  24. Ghee which is rancid or tainted, as is often that of the Indian bazaars, is said to be rendered sweet by boiling with leaves of the Moringa pterygosperma or horse-radish tree.

  25. The feast might not tempt an epicure, but its components were excellent and Frank was well aware that the ghee was exceedingly nutritious, though nauseating to European taste, being practically rancid butter made from buffalo milk.

  26. Here he produced some ghee and chupatties, and half a dozen raw eggs.

  27. While life remains, let a man live happily, let him feed on ghee even though he run into debt; when once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever return again?

  28. The mustard-oil used in the preparation of this dainty is often preferred to ghee in curries.

  29. But Arthavarman ate barley-meal, with half a pal of ghee and a little rice, and a small quantity of meat-curry.

  30. And then Harisarman entertained a hope that he would be able to fill himself up to the throat with ghee and flesh and other dainties, together with his family, in the house of his patron.

  31. But as a general rule, I eat only a karsha of ghee and some barley-meal, I have a weak digestion, and cannot digest more in my stomach.

  32. That morning he got up and went to the temple and sent a message home to his wife that she should send him five sers of flour mixed with ghee and treacle.

  33. Fast all next Monday, bathe that evening, worship the god Shiva, and then get half a pound of flour and mix it with treacle and ghee and eat it for dinner.

  34. But because the flour and ghee and treacle were not sent, the king was unable to complete his ceremonial, and it was all spoilt.

  35. For she feared that the people in the street would laugh at her if she sent her husband five sers of flour mixed with ghee and treacle.

  36. Do this for sixteen Mondays in succession, and on the seventeenth Monday get five pounds of flour, mix with it ghee and treacle, and offer it to Shiva inside this temple.

  37. The smoldering chips of dung took a long time to heat, but finally the ghee seemed ready.

  38. He is also weighed against silk, linen, spices, and even ghee and grains, which are distributed later to the Hindu merchant caste.

  39. Mimamsa discussion that the true meaning is unravelled from the rest of the passage, "Verily, ghee is brightness.

  40. While life remains let a man live happily, let him feed on ghee even though he runs in debt; When once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever return again?

  41. As many as five thousand pots of ghee are poured over the lingam every year.

  42. The festival finally closes with a mysterious ceremony, in which ghee and mantrams play a great part, performed for two days consecutively by the presiding Nambudiri, and Kottiyur is then deserted for another year.

  43. Then the bridegroom pours a little ghee into her joined hands, to which the bride's brother adds two handfuls of paddy from the winnowing basket, and the bridegroom then brushes the paddy from her hands into the fire.

  44. A little gold dust is mingled with ghee and honey, and the father takes up some of the mixture with a piece of gold, and smears the child's lips with it, once with a mantram and once in silence.

  45. The bridegroom then makes two oblations, pouring ghee on the sacred fire, the first called Sishtakralhomam and the second Darmmihomam.

  46. On arrival, an altar is prepared in much the same manner as before, the chamatha branch is ignited, and darbha and ghee are offered.

  47. The two great ceremonies are the Neyyattam and the Elanirattam, the pouring of ghee (clarified butter) and the pouring of the milk of the green cocoanut.

  48. The ladder is thrown away, and a homam performed of ghee and darbha grass made to represent the deceased, while mantrams are recited.

  49. Sometimes the pregnant woman is made to consume daily a little ghee (clarified butter), which has been consecrated by a Nambudiri with appropriate mantrams.

  50. Ghee is only melted butter, much used in India, most by Bengali.

  51. But the rest of the world think it a great thing if they have ghee to their rice.

  52. We should have no more land-tax to pay, for the Musalmans should pay all the taxes, as is just: but the Hindoos should have their land for nothing, and live upon chupatties and ghee and honey every day.

  53. Butter is likewise imported from Cosseir; this comes from Upper Egypt, and is made from buffaloes' milk; the Sowakin and Dahlak ghee is from sheep's milk.

  54. These sell for breakfast also, at an early hour, Egyptian horse-beans boiled in water, which are eaten with ghee and pepper.

  55. Among the lower classes, a common breakfast is a mixture of ghee and honey poured over crumbs of bread as they come quite hot from the oven.

  56. Then bright and polished plates of gold, adorned with engravings, and filled with excellent food prepared with ghee and honey, were given unto those Brahmanas.

  57. Then with the sacrificial ladle, Ghee is poured from each of the spots in such a way that a thick streak is poured along the wall.

  58. Forest recluses kept kine for merit as also for homa or sacrifice with the ghee obtained from them.

  59. To this day, in many religious rites, these streaks of ghee are poured with mantras recited the while.

  60. By Yavaka is meant a particular kind of food made of ghee and flour or barley.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ghee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    butter; cheese; cream; curd; fat; lard; margarine; milk; oil; oleo; whey; yogurt