Below you will find example sentences with "sri lankan". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Sri Lankan in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: sri
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 42
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "sri lankan" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 30.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a senior sri lankan priest noting, agency s sri lankan national rating, lanka, tamil and government stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with sri lanka, colombo sri, sri lanka and colombo sri, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with sri lankan
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The Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen observe that if bottom trawling continues unabated, there will be no fish in Sri Lankan waters. (21 words)
Eventually nearly 500 Arab and other foreign preachers arrived in Sri Lanka and radicalized a segment of the Sri Lankan Muslims. (21 words)
The pilot has since been grounded Sri Lankan Airlines is investigating the matter with Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). (21 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)
The warm and profound connection between Iran and Sri Lanka led to the deep sympathy expressed by the Sri Lankan government and people after the tragic helicopter crash that resulted in the martyrdom of the President and his accompanying delegation. (40 words)
This alternative Mindanao cinnamon to the one found in Sri Lanka, which was controlled by the Portuguese, supplied Spanish needs and this cinnamon traveled the route through the Americas and eventually to Spain, where it competed with Sri Lankan cinnamon. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Sri Lankan government continues to identify the Muslims in Sri Lanka as "Sri Lankan Moors", sub-categorised into "Ceylon Moors" and "Indian Moors".
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.
Eventually nearly 500 Arab and other foreign preachers arrived in Sri Lanka and radicalized a segment of the Sri Lankan Muslims.
Sri Lankan army soldiers secure the area around St. Sebastian’s Church damaged in a bomb attack in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 21, 2019.
The pilot has since been grounded Sri Lankan Airlines is investigating the matter with Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The warm and profound connection between Iran and Sri Lanka led to the deep sympathy expressed by the Sri Lankan government and people after the tragic helicopter crash that resulted in the martyrdom of the President and his accompanying delegation.
The Malaysian Postal Administration authorities have directed a container with postal goods, ordered via various websites by Sri Lankan consumers, through e-commerce to the Sri Lanka Department of Posts during the second week of June 2020.
Sri Lankan all-rounder Thisara Perera scored his first ever century in one-day international cricket in the 2nd ODI between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at Mount Maunganui on Saturday.
Sri Lankan captain Lasith Malinga has ruled himself out of at least the first six IPL matches for Mumbai Indians so that he can qualify with Sri Lanka for the World Cup.
Even without their captain Faf du Plessis for most of the Sri Lankan innings, South Africa ensured the required run rate ballooned beyond Sri Lanka’s scoring rate.
Former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Angelo Mathews and Kusal Mendis have been dropped from Sri Lanka’s ODI squad against England.
The Sri Lankan Embassy in Abu Dhabi has also retained Lawyers in the UAE specializing in immigration matters to advice the Government of Sri Lanka on this matter, they said.
Buddhism is given special recognition in the Constitution which requires Sri Lankan to "protect and foster the Buddha Sasana". citation Hinduism is the second most prevalent religion in Sri Lanka and predates Buddhism.
In Sri Lanka, the cartoon series was adapted into Sinhala (Singhalese) as Sura Pappa, the only Sri Lankan translation of a foreign cartoon that managed to keep the spirit of the original series intact.
This alternative Mindanao cinnamon to the one found in Sri Lanka, which was controlled by the Portuguese, supplied Spanish needs and this cinnamon traveled the route through the Americas and eventually to Spain, where it competed with Sri Lankan cinnamon.