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Example sentences for "plantain leaf"

  • The girl's mother holds over her head a plantain leaf, and four women belonging to different balis (septs) pour water thereon from the vessels.

  • In its manufacture, a quantity of rice is steeped in water, and poured on a plantain leaf.

  • The food is served on a plantain leaf or a bell-metal plate.

  • When life is extinct, the body is washed and covered with a plantain leaf.

  • A plantain leaf is spread in front of it, and a lighted brass lamp placed near.

  • They each came with a piece of plantain leaf as a plate, and assembled to eat, and Ramborakinda divided out the medicine among them.

  • These also they shred with their nails, part into the pot, and part on a plantain leaf, as the pot is small, and all the pieces will be added as the contents of the pot are gradually reduced.

  • Crowned in Palm-Land"; an infant is lying on a plantain leaf in the street.

  • The infant is placed in its father's lap, and in front of it are set a measure of rice and paddy (unhusked rice) on a plantain leaf.

  • These are covered over with a plantain leaf, on which rice is sprinkled.

  • At the burning-ground, the fire is extinguished, and the charred bones are collected, and placed on a plantain leaf.

  • A plantain leaf is then placed in front of the bridal couple, and curry and rice served thereon by their mothers.

  • The corpse is washed and laid on a plantain leaf, and a new cloth is thrown over it.

  • She turns the cup, and a ladle placed by its side, upside down, and covers them with a plantain leaf.

  • A plantain leaf, cut into one foot square, is placed in front of the fire towards the east of it.

  • Then in the afternoon he took the bullock out again to graze and when he brought it back at sunset he was given a plantain leaf full of rice; this meant more food than he could possibly eat in a day.

  • If it is drawn on butter spread on a plantain leaf, puja performed, and the butter given to a barren woman, there will be no danger to herself or her future issue.

  • The effigy is laid recumbent on a plantain leaf, on which a little water mixed with sandal has first been sprinkled, and the smoke of an extinguished wick is passed thrice over it.

  • Close by are a lamp and a measure of rice on a plantain leaf.

  • To the right of each plate, a little jaggery (unrefined sugar) is placed on a piece of plantain leaf.

  • He performs the operation in a little shed to the east of the house, and a plantain leaf is placed so that the hair may fall on it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plantain leaf" 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:
    also much; dinna like; fourth brother; great confusion; honorable discharge; huge blocks; human acts; library school; made sail; make bold; many women; merely because; methyl orange; not able; plantain leaf; relief work; show what; six days; small trees; technically known; thought the; view them