How to Use Bengali in a Sentence
Bengali
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She’s based in Kolkata and most of her content is in Bengali.
—Ernestine Siu ayushi Jindal, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
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There were boy and girl elves there, Bengali and Arab and Polish and Black elves among them, a group as varied as the line outside.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2024
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But finding staff who speak Cantonese or other Asian languages like Bengali is even more difficult.
—Rong Xiaoqing, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
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David Bengali's crisp, blue-sky projections clash with the set's earthy tones, while the varied circus animals lack any visual cohesion.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
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For Bengali Americans who grew up in the United States, the festival is a link back to their heritage.
—Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
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In Act Two, there is a stunner of a video montage, credited to David Bengali, that looks like it was only created last week.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
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In contrast, the Bengali filmmaker appeared uncomfortable on the podium.
—Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
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The next three Indian languages that commissions are likely to be in are Bengali, Marathi and Kannada.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
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During the interviews, a Google exec stated that their AI app was able to engage in Bengali even though it was said to not have been data trained in that language.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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Contents are made as originals in a range of local languages including Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Bhojpuri.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
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Karmakar, who plays their son, was discovered through casting director Suman Saha, who also served as the film’s Bengali dialogue writer.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
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The film is based on a story by the late, great Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray and contrasts the pursuit of material wealth with that of intellectual knowledge.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 May 2023
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Saffron rice and garlic naan accompany each of the five main course options, like seasonal squash kofta; paneer mille-feuille; Bengali lamb curry; old Delhi butter chicken; and Goan sea bass.
—Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
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After a Bengali interpreter who works with asylum seekers in Paris is charged with assaulting a refugee, her resulting self-examination lays bare the callousness of France’s asylum system.
—New York Times, 19 July 2023
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Its nine stories concern the complicated Bengali families in India and America, and Lahiri’s elegant, observant prose is constantly alert to the ways that lore and folkways shape or abrade relationships.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Though Sen was a prodigious mathematician in boyhood, an early love of the Bengali waterways led him to an interest in their economic importance, and to Adam Smith’s analyses of the role rivers and canals played in developing the market economy.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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Spector’s script is painstakingly scored here, with the increasingly incendiary comments thread, displayed above the actors in projections by David Bengali, running alongside the committee members’ dialogue with second-to-second precision.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
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Authorities finally published their findings for Assam this year, and not surprisingly, the majority of those identified as illegally settled in Assam were Bengali Hindus.
—Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2019
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