Sentence examples for kris from inspiring English sources
noun
An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid serpentine blade.
He was elected in a predominantly ethnic-Chinese constituency.Minorities' faith in UMNO was dented when party leaders waved the kris, a traditional Malay sword, at conferences in 2005 and 2006.
As bellicose rival politicians rattled their kris in a recent fishing row with Malaysia, he was statesmanlike and calm.
Among them are the "man in the embrace of an animal" (Dayak kris handles) and animals "stacked" one above the other (Timor, Indonesia).
The types include the wavy-bladed Malayan kris, the short, curved kukri used by the Gurkhas, the Hindu katar with its flat triangular blade, and innumerable others.
McLeish, with little money to waste, landed Kris Boyd: to the purist, hardly even a footballer; to the statistician, an outrageously prolific goalscorer.
But Novo had just replaced the utterly ineffective Kris Boyd in attack when he moved forward to meet a throw-in from Papac out on the left.
A bizarre own-goal by the Hearts captain, Danny Wilson, set Killie on their way and two goals by Kris Boyd after Dale Carrick had levelled for the struggling visitors seemed to put the home side out of sight.
Starbucks UK's managing director, Kris Engskov, tried to justify the company's position in a blog post on the company's website.
The event's line-up included the Basics featuring Kris Schroeder, along with band-mates Wally De Backer (aka Gotye) and Tim Heath.
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley led by Kris Pister, a professor of electrical engineering, are already working on a smart-dust prototype the size of a small nailhead.
Mr Hitt asks Kris Kobach, the law's creator, whether he accepts that it has unleashed some ugly racial attitudes in Alabama.
