Sentence examples for lah from inspiring English sources

It's not that Americans can't handle the twists of a non-English name: after all, the blandest of the bland can pronounce La Jolla ("Lah HO-ya"), even if it takes a second or third try.

The special SS unit that Dietrich founded in 1932 evolved into the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler (LAH), which served as Hitler's personal army and later became a division in the Waffen-SS.

If people call when I am reading The Enquirer, I say, "Oh, lah de dah, I'm just lying here reading the new New Yorker".

The reader is introduced to the first Singapore section with "they saysay she tutor demons, lah.

By retiring before this election, Dr Mahathir deprived his critics of their most emotive issue.By contrast, Mr Badawi, or "Pak Lah" as Malaysians affectionately call him, is a breath of fresh air.

He is personable and popular, and universally referred to by an affectionate nickname, Pak Lah.

He wasn't a lah-di-dah London politician, he wasn't.

October 2011 saw the arena-pleasing soft-rockers release their fifth album, Mylo Xyloto (pronounced 'My-low Zy-lah-toe'), which went straight to number one in the Albums Chart.

Not surprisingly when the SDP emerged, (middle class, lah-did-dah, also a protégé of the despised Steel), another row ensued.

Anyone considering the future of whisky on Islay should visit Caol Ila ("Cull-ee-lah"), which produces six million litres of liquor per year — more than any other Islay distillery — with only eleven full-time employees.

One editor had complained that Superman looked too "lah-de-dah" — meaning gay — and that Lois Lane was too fat: "Arrange for her to have an abortion... so that her figure can return to that of the tasty dish she is supposed to be".