How to Use Khmer in a Sentence

Khmer

noun

• The land is gone, the trust is gone, our Khmer and Native plays have now been taken away.
  — Larissa Fasthorse, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• But the Khmer Rouge’s four-year reign of terror casts a long — and often silent — shadow.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• She was born five years after the Khmer Rouge regime ended in 1979.
  — Shamilee Vellu, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2024
• There’s a folk tale about a clever Khmer hero named Thun Chey who brought rice noodles to China.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• From there, people informed her about the Arizona Khmer Facebook group.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• This medieval site was home to the Angkor or Khmer Empire from the ninth to 15th centuries.
  — Alison Kyra Carter, The Conversation, 7 May 2021
• His father was marched to a forest and killed, like so many victims of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
  — Sun Narin, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
• The same thing happened in Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge were in power, and elsewhere.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
• The Marines ran into a Khmer Rouge ambush; 15 of them were killed and 49 wounded.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
• The city of Angkor Wat was the capital of the Khmer kingdom from the ninth to the fifteenth century.
  — Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2013
• The Arizona Khmer Facebook group brought the two women together.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• When the family fled the Khmer Rouge, this sausage-making kept the family alive during lean times in a Thai refugee camp.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• At the root of the clashes is a dispute over a border through a strip of jungle and rice farms where ancient Khmer-Hindu era temples are set.
  — Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• Small plates, such as pork chili verde with Khmer grapefruit and mango salad, are served from roving dim-sum-style carts in a pastel dining room flanked by a large tropical mural.
  — Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2023
• The government doesn’t encourage remembrance of the day Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge.
  — Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
• This political culture of fear draws directly from the Khmer Rouge playbook – minus the overt violence.
  — Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
• That means the richness of the area’s food, history and culture—particularly from smaller language groups like Khmer and Lao—risks being left out.
  — David Austin, Fortune Asia, 30 July 2024
• Many of these arts are in danger of being lost in the years since the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by Maoist Khmer Rouge.
  — Oscar Espinosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• Davis received an Excel spreadsheet in English and Khmer, the language most widely spoken in Cambodia.
  — Steve Suo, ProPublica, 5 June 2025
• Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge fighter, has long maintained tight control of most of Cambodia's institutions.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2023
• Set on the rim of a volcano, the temple is one of the country’s most important monuments erected by the Khmer people, an ethnic group native to what is now Cambodia.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 20 June 2024
• Researchers confirmed the statues were found buried near the north gate of Angkor Thom, the 11th-century capital of the Khmer Empire.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
• The earlier version also referred imprecisely to the number of people killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The bombing and invasion ended up expanding the conflict in Southeast Asia and led to a takeover of the country by the murderous Khmer Rouge.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Vietnam’s intervention in Cambodia had toppled the Khmer Rouge, a Beijing ally.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
• In some states, as in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, such conflicts wiped out the revolutionary regimes that started them.
  — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• The war itself lasted about a month, after which Chinese forces withdrew, but Vietnam remained in Cambodia for a decade, ensuring the Khmer Rouge never regained power.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
• Although the Vietnamese drove out the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Cambodia remained a pawn in global rivalries until the end of the Cold War.
  — Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• Gauguin initially wanted to go to Tonkin—at the 1889 World’s Fair, he had been bowled over by an exhibit of Khmer art—but his application for a colonial job there was rejected.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
• One of the oldest sacred sites in Southeast Asia—Champasak’s Wat Phou, a Khmer-Hindu temple complex—is actually considered to be the blueprint for Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap.
  — Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025