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Example sentences for "pundits"

Lexicographically close words:
punctured; punctures; puncturing; pund; pundit; punds; pung; pungency; pungent; pungently
  1. The Pundits of the country, however learned they may be in classical lore and logical acumen, are very much wanting in the rules of polished life.

  2. When engaged in an animated discussion, these Pundits will not desist or halt until they are separated by their other learned friends of the faculty.

  3. And to crown the whole, thousands of learned Pundits from all parts of the country congregated together to impart a religious solemnity to the spectacle.

  4. To so miserable a strait have the learned Pundits been reduced of late years, that they anxiously look forward to the anniversary of this festival as a small harvest of gain to them, as the authoritative ministers of the goddess.

  5. The distribution of rewards among the Brahmins and Pundits of different degrees of scholarly attainments, is a rather thankless task.

  6. Several Pundits were astonished at her wonderful acquirements.

  7. The present indigenous Hindus of the valley are generally known as Pundits, and Kashmir Pundits are well known over India for their acuteness and subtlety of mind, their intelligence and quick-wittedness.

  8. The Kashmir Pundits are essentially townspeople, and out of the total number about half live in the city of Srinagar.

  9. It appears from the list that all the passes crossed before by Europeans and pundits belong to the eastern and western parts of the system.

  10. The name Ka-la occurs on a map of one of Montgomerie's pundits by a single isolated mountain summit.

  11. He was ably supported by other pundits everywhere.

  12. The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates to silly arguments, big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.

  13. Over the past 6 years, the pundits have pointed out more than once that my Presidency hasn't delivered on this vision.

  14. After much reflection and discussion the pundits decided that the payment of water rates should be considered an atonement for violating the ordinances of their religion.

  15. He called to his side learned pundits and scholarly priests, who taught philosophy and morals under his generous patronage.

  16. There is a lively dispute among geographers, topographers and other learned pundits of the scientific bureaus of the Indian government as to whether Everest is really the king of the mountains.

  17. One of the pundits referred me, for example, to Erie, Pa.

  18. The question proved good for an hour's discussion among certain learned pundits of the "trade" who were in the president's office at the time I asked it.

  19. To be sure the pundits would say that this is to misuse and play with words; to perpetrate a contradiction in terms.

  20. If you still have literary or journalistic ambitions, and have not been entirely captivated by the pundits of commerce and money-making, Foster might be of material assistance to you.

  21. I began to collect such materials for his Biography as were to be found in the office, the press, and the college, and among the Native Christians and Brahman pundits whom he had influenced.

  22. Under Carey, as Professor of Divinity and Lecturer on Botany and Zoology, Mack and John Marshman, with pundits and moulavies, the college grew in public favour, even during Dr.

  23. The last was compiled in Sanskrit by pundits summoned from all Bengal and maintained in Calcutta at the public cost, each at a rupee a day.

  24. The judges asked the pundits whether the woman is "enjoined" by the shaster voluntarily to burn herself with the body of her husband.

  25. He was the centre of the learned natives whom it attracted, as pundits and moonshees, as inquirers and visitors.

  26. In the college for more than half the week, as in his study at Serampore, Carey exhausted three pundits daily.

  27. Carey engaged and trained his many pundits at a twentieth of that sum.

  28. The translations are all written out first by pundits in the different languages, except the Sanskrit which is dictated by me to an amanuensis.

  29. The whole body of law-pundits wrote of Sati as only "permitted.

  30. If Mr Vizetelly had consulted the Unitarian report, he would have seen that I spoke of the Pundits of Benares; and he might, without any very long or costly research, have learned where Benares is, and what a Pundit is.

  31. Now Tenway Junction is so big a place, and so scattered, that it is impossible that all the pundits should by any combined activity maintain to the letter that order of which our special pundit had spoken.

  32. But the pundits are very clever, and have much experience in men and women.

  33. Now this was a more delicately ticklish matter than might be supposed, owing to the circumstance that the said pundits are such warm men, and so well endowed with this world's riches that they are practically non-corruptible.

  34. The next step was, of course, to obtain permission from the pundits who rule the roast of the Jockey Club, that Milky Way might be allowed to compete in the approaching Derby.

  35. Do we quite realise that if foreign policy had that continuity which the political pundits pretend, we should now be fighting on the side of the Turk against the Balkan States?

  36. As a matter of fact the outstanding principles which serve to improve human conduct, are quite simple and understandable, as soon as they have been shorn of the sophistries and illusions with which the pundits clothe them.

  37. The Burdwan Pundits make a mess of the last two verses.

  38. The Burdwan Pundits have totally misunderstood the first line of this verse.

  39. It is curious to see how the Burdwan Pundits have misunderstood the simple verse.

  40. The Burdwan Pundits have made nonsense of the first line of verse 8.

  41. The Burdwan Pundits understand this verse to mean that the Sudra should offer the funeral cake unto his sonless master and support masters if old and weak.

  42. The Burdwan Pundits have been very careless in translating the Santi Parva.

  43. The Burdwan Pundits repeat the error in their vernacular version.

  44. Did you ever hear the exaggerated line that describes one of the pundits of science as 'the greatest, wisest, meanest of mankind'?

  45. The gravity with which the pundits treated each other extended to the rest of the world, because, in the first place, they were more learned than any one else, and in the second, many of them were men of genius.

  46. After all, these pundits resemble their predecessors in learning.

  47. But the pundits at last decreed that this must cease.

  48. The pundits made no provision for the proper accommodation for boys and girls at the most critical period of their lives.

  49. This I have not been able to procure, though many learned pundits have repeated to me by heart whole pages from them.

  50. Many Pundits insist the Yavanas were so named from their obstinate assertion of a superior influence in the female over the linga or male nature, in producing a perfect offspring.

  51. During the two years that the labour of the Pundits covered, the Hindus waited for the truth in the same spirit that the Hebrews had done at the foot of Sinai.

  52. The copy of the manuscript obtained in Bombay was defective, and so the pundits wrote to Benares, Calcutta and Jeypoor for copies of the manuscript from Sanscrit libraries in those places.

  53. While translating with the pundits the 'Anunga runga, or the stage of love,' reference was frequently found to be made to one Vatsya.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pundits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.