Sentence examples for lei as from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama arrived on the island of Oahu in the middle of the night as Wednesday turned into Thursday and slipped on a green lei as he descended the steps of Air Force One.

China's state-run Xinhua news agency quoted foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei as saying the talks had "reached the final moment", Reuters reported.

Following the appointment of Mr. Lei as sculptor, the foundation was attacked for not having chosen a black American, let alone an American.

The story quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei as saying the report was "irresponsible" and that China had protested to the United States.

As recently as the early 1990s many Chinese mostly subsisted on a diet of vegetables bought at street markets.For Mr Lei, as for many of his countrymen, the years of deprivation are well within living memory.

Use a cut up laminated copy of Speak, Memory of Butterflies by Hong Lei as puzzle.

But local comparisons are even more illuminating, including those you can draw between the strikingly different surfaces of the figure and those of the four large late-Shang vessels from the Sanxingdui pits, wide-mouthed vases known as lei, sitting in vitrines a few feet away.

General terms, or names for "kinds" (lei), are regarded as denoting all things or stuff (shi) that is "the same" in some respect, such as all horses or all oxen.

Parents and children ages 5 to 12 can enjoy their choice of either a morning, afternoon or evening program offering such activities as lei making, hula dancing, lauhala weaving, ukulele lessons, origami or a photo scavenger hunt.

For as little as 15 lei ($4, £2.50), visitors will now be able to roam the 80-room residence - said to include a cinema, a swimming pool and an impressive dressing room - set in 14,000 sq m (3.5 acres) of grounds in Bucharest's desirable Primaverii neighbourhood, the Active News website says.

With his friends encircling him on their surfboards, Chin Ho gave Malia's ashes to the sea, as well as the lei he'd given her at their wedding.