Explore Lankan through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Lankan meaning
- Of or relating to the country and island Sri Lanka.
- Of or relating to Sri Lankan culture or identity.
Using Lankan
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to the country and island Sri Lanka. | Of or relating to Sri Lankan culture or identity.
- In the example corpus, lankan often appears in combinations such as: sri lankan, lankan president, lankan government.
Context around Lankan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lankan
- In this selection, "lankan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sri, navy, waters and army stand out and add context to how "lankan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10 sri lankan banks following, a sri lankan born author and sri lankan. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lankan" sits close to words such as bearer, bolstered and cemented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lankan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Nilantha Ilangamuwa is a Sri Lankan born author. (8 words)
Exim Bank extends $100 mn line of credit to Sri Lankan. (11 words)
Fourteen years later, the Sri Lankan government remains in about the atrocities committed by its forces. (16 words)
Tamil women and children grieving on Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day in 2016, commemorating the killing of tens of thousands of Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan forces at Mullivaikkal in the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war in May 2009. (40 words)
In that year, the Sri Lankan army blockaded the Tamil majority district of Jaffna ; Gandhi ordered relief supplies to be dropped into the area by parachute because the Sri Lankan navy did not allow the Indian Navy to enter. (39 words)
Gerard who became a refugee in 1990 when the Sri Lankan army recaptured the area from the rebels, was now again living in a refugee camp after the tsunami wrecked his home and killed his parents, wife and daughter. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks following the recent sovereign downgrade and recalibration of the agency’s Sri Lankan national rating scale.
Tamil women and children grieving on Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day in 2016, commemorating the killing of tens of thousands of Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan forces at Mullivaikkal in the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war in May 2009.
The operation was launched Tuesday off the coast of Delft islet in Northern Jaffna when the Sri Lankan Navy received information that an Indian with some fishermen was involved in illegal fishing in the Sri Lankan waters.
The Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen observe that if bottom trawling continues unabated, there will be no fish in Sri Lankan waters.
Many Sri Lankan Catholics will not vote for Sirisena if he stands, said a senior Sri Lankan priest, noting two of three churches attacked at Easter were Catholic.
In that year, the Sri Lankan army blockaded the Tamil majority district of Jaffna ; Gandhi ordered relief supplies to be dropped into the area by parachute because the Sri Lankan navy did not allow the Indian Navy to enter.
The Sri Lankan government continues to identify the Muslims in Sri Lanka as "Sri Lankan Moors", sub-categorised into "Ceylon Moors" and "Indian Moors".
A group of civil society organisations also questioned the government’s sincerity saying in a The victim community has no confidence in any local commission or tribunal created by the Sri Lankan state.
A local Lions Club has had an international impact, funding the purchase of food and school supplies for a Sri Lankan community in need.
An oft-cited example is a Sri Lankan port that the government ended up leasing to a Chinese company for 99 years.
As far as their mandate is concerned, all lands are under their authority when it comes to wildlife; and it is what the Sri Lankan people expect of them.
But this time, Siraj nipped one back in to beat the Lankan batter’s booming drive, and rearranged his timber.
Eventually nearly 500 Arab and other foreign preachers arrived in Sri Lanka and radicalized a segment of the Sri Lankan Muslims.
Exim Bank extends $100 mn line of credit to Sri Lankan.
Fourteen years later, the Sri Lankan government remains in about the atrocities committed by its forces.
Gerard who became a refugee in 1990 when the Sri Lankan army recaptured the area from the rebels, was now again living in a refugee camp after the tsunami wrecked his home and killed his parents, wife and daughter.
In Division 1 of the Southern Premier League, continued their excellent early season form by beating Hook and Newnham Basics by four wickets, with Sri Lankan all-rounder Dineth Thimodya thumping 146.
In this context the Sri Lankan state began to depend to a greater degree on global financial markets for loans.
It all happened in the last over of the Lankan innings when Shami was steaming in to bowl the third ball, but Shanaka, standing at the non-striker’s end, had backed up too far.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa is a Sri Lankan born author.
Phrases with lankan
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with lankan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: