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How to use ka in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, verb

Ka means the aspect of a person’s soul or being that sustains their existence, roughly the life-force, sometimes pictured as a double of the person. Example: “Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.”

Examples of ka by meaning

nounThe aspect of a person’s soul or being that sustains their existence, roughly the life-force, sometimes pictured as a...

  • Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings
  • Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
  • ‘You could bind the ka of a man to his body for five thousand years,’ said Jaquel.2011, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition), William Morrow 2013, p. 179

More sentences with ka

  • ZS (Zelena Stranka, Party of Zagorje) competed in the City of Zagreb, Zagrebačka, and Krapinsko-zagorska counties.2017, Arjan H. Schakel, Regional and National Elections in Eastern Europe: Territoriality of the Vote in Ten Countries, Springer, →ISBN…. From the entry Zagrebačka
  • All his attacks were overhead strikes, a piece of cake to any aikidōka.2015, Ellis Amdur, “So How Tough Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?”, in Dueling with O-sensei: Grappling with the Myth of the Warrior…. From the entry aikidōka
  • I am grateful that she shares her firsthand accounts and perspectives as a Kanien’kehá:ka woman.2015 July 10, Jessica Deer, “Opinion: Looking back at the Oka Crisis and ahead to the future”, in The Montreal Gazette. From the entry Kanien'kehá:ka
  • The jūdōka evaluated the push-ups and brought them in congruence with his personal values and needs.2011, Menno Deen, Ben A. M. Shouten, “Games that Motivate to Learn: Design Serious Games by Identified Regulations”, in Patrick Felicia…. From the entry jūdōka
  • The akh would later become the state achieved when the ba and ka are rejoined.2005, Gary A. Stillwell, Afterlife: Post-Mortem Judgments in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, page 118. From the entry akh
  • Most casualties were registered in Sisačko-Moslavačka, Karlovačka and Požeško-Slavonska counties (seven persons per county).2002, Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine-free World, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry Karlovačka
  • Staats is Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) and Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario and is based in Toronto.2024 March 26, Candace Maracle, “Six Nations artist Greg Staats wins Governor General's award”, in CBC News. From the entry Skarù·ręʔ
  • Lawrence River near the Kanien’kehá:ka community of Akwesasne..2023 April 3, Christina Clark-Kazak, “The deaths in the St. Lawrence River show that border ‘control’ is a fallacy”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry Kanien'kehá:ka
  • Yilan Creole has the two optional sentence-final markers ga and no, corresponding to Japanese ka and no, respectively.2018, Andreas Hölzl, A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond: An ecological perspective, Berlin: Language Science Press…. From the entry Yilan Creole
  • In informal style questions the ka question particle is omitted and interrogativity is mainly accomplished through intonation and Wh-question words.2015, Lidia Tanaka, “Nourishing the Friendship: Questions in Friends’ Talk”, in Japanese Questions: Discourse, Context and Language…. From the entry wh-question
  • Ka ni na, ask stupid question sibo?2010 September 26, Ang Shi Na, “Sheena’s101”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry sibo
  • If a person’s ka and ba were not reunited and akh failed to develop, then everlasting life would not occur.2009, Janet Balk, “Egyptian Perceptions of Death in Antiquity”, in Clifton D. Bryant, Dennis L. Peck, editors, Encyclopedia of Death and…. From the entry akh
  • Ka found the general lack of interest liberating.2005, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely, Snow, page 218. From the entry sharbat
  • Among those who followed were, as might have been expected, Tāmati Wāka Nene and his older brother and tuakana, Patuone.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 152. From the entry tuakana
  • Then, like the hardy keiki o ka aina buggahs we were, go right back in for more punishment!2000 August 16, Alkahuna Kekaula Kamauoha, “Re: Screened Lanais/Porches?”, in soc.culture.hawaii (Usenet). From the entry Eddie would go
  • Several artists have experimented with zoukifying the gwo ka group, but the undisputed king of the zouked-out gwo ka is Sartana.1987, The Reggae & African Beat, volumes 6-7, page 21. From the entry zoukify
  • Each kendōka actually sets out to control the centre of his opponent with the point of his own shinai.1987, Michel Random, translated by Cyprian P. Blamires, “The way of the sword and kendō”, in Japan: Strategy of the Unseen: A Guide for…. From the entry kendōka
  • Ka Ho is a white sand beach.1982 October 24, Pamela G. Hollie, “CHINA WITH A PORTUGUESE ACCENT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24…. From the entry Hac Sa
  • Any and all forms of budō afford budōka the training and character traits of bushidō to live an exemplary and extraordinary life.2022, Masayuki Shimabukuro, Leonard J. Pellman, “Karate-dō no Mokuteki: The Purpose of Karate-dō”, in Karate as the Art of Killing: A…. From the entry bushidō
  • This used-book-buying boom led to gnashing of teeth by bibliophiles, who bristled at the “antiquitization” (kottōka) of old books and the accompanying price bubble.2020, Nathan Shockey, The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media, Columbia University Press…. From the entry antiquitization
  • Michelle Yeoh, who has convincingly played a martial artist in numerous movies, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is a dancer, not a budōka.2007, Ferol Arce with Patrick McDermott, “Kata & Dance”, in Mind Body Spirit: The Triangle of Life, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, part…. From the entry budōka
  • First, we use this data to examine when objects associated with SLI material practices first appeared in six distinct community sequences belonging to ancestral Wendat, Onoñda’gegá, and Kanien’kehá:ka traditions.2024 September, Jonathan Micon, Jennifer Birch, “The materiality and temporality of St. Lawrence Iroquoian incorporation in late…. From the entry Onoñda'gegá'
  • Like the other two dozen kendōka in the training hall, Yukiko was dressed in flowing blue hakama pantaloons, padded arm guards, and a lacquer chest protector.2021, Marc Cameron, chapter 32, in Tom Clancy’s Chain of Command (Jack Ryan), [London]: Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry kendōka
  • Kwak̕wala has been the term used to describe the language as a whole, although this practice is slowly changing to more accurately reflect the dialect differences between Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw communities.2020, Keisha Everson, “Da̱nx̱a̱laga̱litła̱n’s ‘We Will Sing in the House’: Reclaiming Domains of the Home Through Song in Kwak̓wala”, in…. From the entry Liḵ̕wala
  • In response to the movements of the attacker, the aikidōka moves around his or her own center of gravity, using breath to stabilize the axis of movement.2013, Wolfgang Dietrich, translated by Wolfgang Sützl and Victoria Hindley, “Budō-aikidō”, in Elicitive Conflict Transformation and the…. From the entry aikidōka
  • He also had a good voice and sang ballads, so strongly that the milkmaids one morning at Ólavsøka heard him all over the fiord from Havn.2010, S. A. Bengtson, Dorete--her Book: Being a Tribute to Dorete Bloch and to Faroese Nature, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry Ólavsøka
  • Vojvodina includes the historic regions of Bačka, between the Danube and Tisa rivers and the Hungarian border; Banat, to the east of Bačka; and Srem (Srijem), to the south.1998, multiple later revisions, John B. Allcock, Encyclopædia Britannica. From the entry Bačka
  • He has hung up his tanka (Tibetan thaṅka, a religious painting that is usually mounted on fabric) on the wall and is sitting down to the left of it.1988, Victor H. Mair, Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis, page 123. From the entry tanka
  • Surveying your individual reasons, Nature remarks "Ish ka bibble" in a bored tone and goes on to run the square and the level over the job.1914, Steam Machinery: A Magazine of Men, Machinery and Methods. From the entry ish ka bibble
  • It is now widely accepted that phenomena like glacioisostasy and hydroisostasy have produced a vertical deformation of the earth's crust in virtually all coastal areas over the last 20 ka.1997, R. W. G. Carter, C. D. Woodroffe, Coastal Evolution: Late Quaternary Shoreline Morphodynamics, →ISBN. From the entry glacioisostasy

Meaning of ka

  1. noun The aspect of a person’s soul or being that sustains their existence, roughly the life-force, sometimes pictured as a double of the person.
  2. verb To serve or help; used only in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee" or variants thereof.
  3. noun The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.

Full definition of ka

Questions about ka in a sentence

How do you use ka in a sentence?
Ka is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.”
What is a short sentence with ka?
“Ka Ho is a white sand beach.”
What does ka mean?
Ka means the aspect of a person’s soul or being that sustains their existence, roughly the life-force, sometimes pictured as a double of the person.

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