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Example sentences for "buyo"

Lexicographically close words:
buyed; buyer; buyers; buyeth; buying; buys; buzz; buzzard; buzzards; buzzed
  1. They chew buyo like the Tagals and other Malays, and are inordinately fond of smoking.

  2. The offerings consist of rice, chickens, eggs, buyo and tobacco, also a large jar of pangasi, a beer brewed from rice.

  3. But where they really shine, where all their care is lavished, where nothing is too much trouble, is in the cultivation of the buyo (Piper betel).

  4. They placed near the coffin buyo and bonga for chewing, and vases containing rice and maize.

  5. Cochinango had forgotten to bring buyo with him, so he asked the traveller for some.

  6. The traveller said, "I have with me a magic buyo that will answer any question you put to it.

  7. Indeed, there may be some association of idea between a buyo and a ring suggested here.

  8. The manner of its use is as follows: A slice of the nut is wrapped in a buyo leaf, covered with lime, made from oyster shells, and then chewed.

  9. The areca palm for its nut, and the buyo palm for its leaf, are carefully and extensively cultivated.

  10. There are nearly one thousand warehouses and retail shops in Manila for the sale of the areca nut, or for the fresh buyo leaf and lime necessary in its preparation; or for the slices wrapped and ready for immediate use.

  11. The fate of the Buyo Maru was no better.

  12. Their names were the Tenshin Maru, the Bushu Maru, the Buyo Maru, the Hokoku Maru, and the Jinsen Maru.

  13. A woman consumes half as much buyo and tobacco as a man.

  14. Buyo is the name given in the Philippines to the preparation of betel suitable for chewing.

  15. The moderate estimate I have just formed ought to inspire the more confidence from its being well known that the use of the buyo is general among the inhabitants of these Islands.

  16. The luxuries of the Filipinos are buyo [114] and cigars--a cigar costing half a centavo, and a buyo much less.

  17. Buyo and tobacco are less used in Leyte than in Samar.

  18. When used in small quantities and with proper toilet of the mouth, and this is the common practice among the Filipinos, buyo seems to be a very useful preservative of the teeth and a gingival and stomachic tonic.

  19. The buyo leaf plays a very important part in the therapeutics of the infant of the Philippines: in its indigestions, colics and diarrhoeas the heated leaves are applied to the abdomen previously anointed with hot cocoanut oil.

  20. Among these is the buyo (or betel); the habit of chewing it has become universal among the Spaniards, of all classes, and poison is often administered through its medium.

  21. With these handsome boxes, which are made of metal and of other materials, they carry the scissors and other tools for making the buyo with cleanliness and neatness.

  22. The ordinary dainty throughout these islands, and in many kingdoms of the mainland of those regions, is buyo [betel].

  23. If the show is not to his liking, he chews his buyo or withdraws without disturbing the others who perhaps find pleasure in it.

  24. He took some buyo from his salakot and began to chew it while he stared stupidly at what was going on around him.

  25. Thus prepared, the buyo is ready for use--that is, to be eaten.

  26. The juice arising from the buyo in eating is of a strong red color, resembling blood.


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