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Example sentences for "pariah"

Lexicographically close words:
parfums; pargana; parhelia; parhelion; pari; pariahs; paribus; parientes; parietal; parietals
  1. The pariah dog is generally mangy, scaly, starved, and half mad when he is not actually snapping.

  2. Packs of big monkeys and homeless dogs--pariah dogs, they are called--stand on the roads in the suburbs until a horse almost steps on them.

  3. A Hindu widow is thought much less of than a pariah dog; she is the most pitiable object on earth.

  4. It could destroy all life on the pariah planet.

  5. The broadcast waves of Dara told of agreement, and wild and fierce resentment filled the pariah planet's people.

  6. And the people of Weald had refused to help Dara in a time of famine, and had blockaded that pariah world for years afterward.

  7. But then the pariah planet made a new proposal.

  8. Because you are free for a moment; because you are not treated quite as a pariah because that black-eyed houri down at the shanty smiles at you?

  9. Done was a sensitive man, who had been some thing of a pariah since his knickerbocker period, and was first the butt and later the bane of the narrow, convention-governed public of a small English village.

  10. A palm tree," says another, "casts no shade; a Pariah has no caste and rules.

  11. A pariah dog, lean and yellow, came to eye them furtively through the chinks of the corrugated iron, and the horses snorted and stamped in their pickets, as the night breeze carried to them their scent.

  12. It was as though an elephant had been worried by a pariah cur.

  13. Day after day went by while the great man hung like a pariah dog on the words of his haughty captive.

  14. Aboo Din unloosed a half-dozen pariah dogs that we kept for wild pig, and led them to the spot where the tiger had last lain.

  15. If you run amok in Malaya, you may kill your enemy or your dearest friend, but you will be krissed in the end like a pariah dog.

  16. Major Rich had sent his shikaris on the night before to collect beaters, so that when we arrived we were welcomed by a small army of Klings, Tamils, and Malays, and the usual sprinkling of pariah dogs.

  17. A Malayan Story If you run amok in Malaya, you may perhaps kill your enemy or wound your dearest friend, but you may be certain that in the end you will be krissed like a pariah dog.

  18. She would have become vicious, have lapsed into fierce pariah savagery, if her childishness had not sometimes gained the mastery.

  19. Seward's views of the policy pursued here I have no doubt are the right ones; in fact, the only ones which can be looked back to with satisfaction, or that have probability of success among a race of Pariah Arabs.

  20. Along the silent shore the hungry Pariah dog may be seen tearing his meal from some stranded corpse, whilst the adjutant-bird, with his head sunk on his body and one leg tucked up, patiently awaits his turn.

  21. I here bought a little black puppy, to be my future companion in Sikkim: he was of a breed between the famous Tibet mastiff and the common Sikkim hunting-dog, which is a variety of the sorry race called Pariah in the plains.

  22. But as I moved out of their ken I found myself the pariah of both sides, the Ishmaelite against whom was every man’s hand.

  23. In the resulting degradation the woman has the largest share, since it makes her a pariah and involves her in all the hardening and depraving influences of social ostracism.

  24. In new fashions she finds "an æsthetic form of that instinct of destruction which seems peculiar to all pariah existences, in so far as they are not completely enslaved in spirit.

  25. Besides, the pariahs are of no particular breed--there being several sorts of pariah dogs.

  26. The pariah put his hands together palm to palm in abject apology and deprecation.

  27. The wall presented no difficulty; but as Ananda dropped lightly into the road he startled a half-starved pariah dog returning to the town after its nightly prowl for food.

  28. Again the pariah touched his forehead with both hands; then, placing them together, palm to palm, he listened deferentially to Ananda's explanation and instructions.

  29. How dare a loathsome pariah like this son of a jackal offer me such an insult!

  30. I don't mind confessing that my attitude towards the pariah who acted as my servant by my parents' orders has modified.

  31. Ananda strode forward and fell at Pantulu's feet as the pariah had prostrated himself the day before.

  32. The pariah prostrated himself and lifted his folded hands in entreaty.

  33. The food disappeared without any hindrance to the conversation, and the fact that it had been received from the pariah did not affect the missionary's appetite.

  34. He thought it wiser not to mention the milk lest he should get the pariah into trouble and stop the supply.

  35. Somehow when the Englishman accepted food from the hand of the pariah the action had a different complexion, and it set Ananda thinking.

  36. He will have to take food from his pariah servant--a practical beginning of his education in the brotherhood of man," remarked Wenaston.

  37. She is a pariah and her presence is defiling to one of my caste.

  38. The pariah again made a sign in the affirmative.

  39. The pariah servant had no opportunity, however, of approaching the lady Dorama within speaking distance.

  40. The pariah returned and was directed to lift the lid, which he did.

  41. They had driven her to the breaking-point, and no longer had she thought for anything but her own sufferings, and the injustice that a pariah should walk at large, unknown to the world, unknown to itself.

  42. A few chickens and a miserable pariah cur or two wandered about, and several little pigs were caged in the huts.

  43. There were also some small hens here, and a female dog, very much like the pariah dogs, which I had seen on the coast, and probably it was brought from there, only it seemed to have shorter legs than the ordinary kind.

  44. Suddenly in the distance a pariah dog gave a prolonged melancholy howl.

  45. As an experiment we shot a miserable mangy Pariah dog, that was prowling about the ground seeking garbage and offal.

  46. One day, while we were watching this pariah of a squirrel, we detected a young one slowly creeping through the adjoining shrubs; he had in his mouth a ripe fruit, a parcimon, if I remember right.

  47. Driving in the afternoon through the Queen's Gardens, the abode of the horrid yellow pariah dogs of the city, we reached the outskirts of the town, and came to the old fort, made 500 years old.

  48. We passed repeatedly leopards being paraded through the streets by their keepers, the pariah or "pi" dogs barking furiously at them.

  49. Of the pariah dogs I dare not trust myself to say much.

  50. While on the subject of animals let me state that on this first day a goat, an ass, another camel, and numerous pariah dogs added themselves to our ration strength.

  51. A pariah tore along beside the vehicle barking; crows flew up from the dung in the road by half-dozens, protesting shrilly; a pedlar of blue bead necklaces just escaped being knocked down.

  52. There were gas-lamps, and they sent a ripple of light like a sword-thrust along the gutter beside the banquette, where a pariah dog nosed a dead rat and was silhouetted.

  53. Some pariah dogs run about on the outskirts, every now and then making frantic efforts to wedge themselves in between the vultures and so obtain for their emaciated bodies a mouthful of food.

  54. In the vicinity of a town or village the hours of darkness are rendered hideous by the noises of human beings and of their appendages--the pariah dogs.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pariah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alien; anathema; anchorite; ascetic; case; castaway; character; crackpot; crank; derelict; eccentric; exile; expatriate; fanatic; hermit; hobo; invalid; leper; maverick; natural; nut; oddity; original; outcast; outlaw; outsider; pariah; recluse; solitary; tramp; type; undesirable; untouchable; zealot