How do you use Sankara in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Sankara meaning
A surname.
Using Sankara
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, sankara often appears in combinations such as: thomas sankara, sankara and, sankara was.
Context around Sankara
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sankara
- In this selection, "sankara" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thomas, auwal, danladi, jabar, following and srinivasan stand out and add context to how "sankara" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adder along sankara amaguwa road and alhaj danladi sankara. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sankara" sits close to words such as abdollahian, abergavenny and abounded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sankara
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sankara Eye Hospital: Eye camp, Sathya Studio, Marimalai Nagar, 9 a.m. (12 words)
Sankara-Jabar's family has called this part of Alabama home for generations. (13 words)
The likes of Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) and many others laid a foundation. (17 words)
Thomas Sankara was ousted in coup d’état led by Blaise Compaoré Burkina Faso, land of the upright man owes its name to Thomas Isidore Sankara, a revolutionary army Captain who took over power in a coup d’etat in 1983. (41 words)
Just like the variations in the English language used by say Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse, we can find clear differences in the Sanskrit used by Jayadeva, Muthuswamy Dikshitar, Kalidasa, Adi Sankara and Maharaja Swati Tirunal. (40 words)
He said: “Following the investigation by the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, the report shows there is no evidence to prove that there was any illicit affair between Auwal Danladi Sankara and Tasleem Baba Nabegu. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Thomas Sankara was ousted in coup d’état led by Blaise Compaoré Burkina Faso, land of the upright man owes its name to Thomas Isidore Sankara, a revolutionary army Captain who took over power in a coup d’etat in 1983.
Following the coup Compaoré immediately reversed the nationalizations, overturned nearly all of Sankara's policies, returned the country back into the IMF fold, and ultimately spurned most of Sankara's legacy.
Sankara had risen to power via a popular coup in 1983, only to be overthrown and assassinated four years later.
Sankara-Jabar's family has called this part of Alabama home for generations.
The killing of Lumumba, Sankara, all those guys--we have to make sure that doesn't happen again.
Governor Umar Namadi of Jigawa has suspended his Commissioner of Special Duties, Auwal Sankara, over an alleged illicit affair with a married woman in Kano.
He said: “Following the investigation by the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, the report shows there is no evidence to prove that there was any illicit affair between Auwal Danladi Sankara and Tasleem Baba Nabegu.
Jigawa State Governor, Malam Umar A. Namadi, has suspended his Commissioner for Special Duties, Auwalu Dalladi Sankara, following allegations of adultery.
Jigawa State Governor, Umar Namadi has suspended his Commissioner of Special Duties, Mr Auwal Sankara, over alleged illicit affair with a married woman in Kano.
The outcome of the legal action and investigations will determine the validity of the allegations and Sankara's future in office.
Sankara Srinivasan – Founder, CEO of said: “Due to the lack of accurate and actionable data, physical retailers are often at a disadvantage when competing with online players.
The likes of Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) and many others laid a foundation.
The senior special adviser on new media to the governor, Malam Auwalu D Sankara, said Badaru cannot interfere in the selection of the new vice chancellor of the university.
He explained that the suspect was arrested on Sept. 17 at about 2:30 p.m. by men of the ‘Operation Puff Adder, along Sankara-Amaguwa road in Ringim LGA.
Just like the variations in the English language used by say Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse, we can find clear differences in the Sanskrit used by Jayadeva, Muthuswamy Dikshitar, Kalidasa, Adi Sankara and Maharaja Swati Tirunal.
Natrajgopal, son of Guru Mani, thanked Sankara Math for their donation to construct a prayer hall in Chintamani Ashram at Tiitwala, the brainchild of Guru Mani.
Sankara Eye Hospital: Eye camp, Sathya Studio, Marimalai Nagar, 9 a.m.
Sankara is memorialized along with the busts of 12 of his comrades who were also killed in the 1987 coup.
The investigation in Dutse on Friday showed that among those who allegedly defected include first civilian governor of the state, Alhaji Ali Sa’ad Birnin Kudu, former Senator for Jigawa NorthWest, Alhaj Danladi Sankara.
Branding itself as Pan-Africanist, the EFF incisively invokes the teachings of Frantz Fanon and Thomas Sankara, figures who, decades after their deaths, resonate positively on the continent.
Common combinations with sankara
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: