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How to use kai in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Kai means food. Example: “Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.”

Examples of kai by meaning

nounFood.

  • Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.1995, Graeme Williams, The soc.culture.new-zealand FAQ
  • Got to go now and get some kai.2003, Carmen, “Is there really a censor in NZ?!”, in nz.general (Usenet)
  • When the sausage man handed the kai over, Kerry passed two wieners to a pair of skinny white kids who had been watching the queue the whole time.2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 118

More sentences with kai

  • It looked like the work of time and weather, not yōkai malice.2021, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 5, in The Night Parade of 100 Demons (Legend of the Five Rings), Nottingham…. From the entry yōkai
  • He hadn’t lost a limb, but was a yōkai whose legs fused into a single muscular column.2017 October 24, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters, Titan Books, →ISBN. From the entry monopod
  • In the first winter, we probably had about 20 peeps showing up for kai.2017 August 26, Emma Houpt, “More people, more need in Tauranga”, in SunLive. From the entry vollie
  • Kai definitely wasn’t a ‘party’ kind of guy, though!2021 January, Akamitsu Awamura, translated by Kristine Johnson and airco, edited by Jennifer Sherman, She's the Cutest... But We're Just…. From the entry anisong
  • Kai raised his glance to mine, aghast.2016, Anthony Mercier, Akin Minds: Hierarchy of Lars, Xlibris. From the entry elfism
  • What mattered most was that, from the very top of the Nihon Sumo Kyōkai, Yokozuna Akebono had been shown respect.2006, Mark Panek, Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan, page 265. From the entry yokozuna
  • Kai Johansen made a sortie down the right and, running out of ideas, tried a shot from more than 20 yards.1998, David Potter, Tom Campbell, Jock Stein: The Celtic Years, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN. From the entry sortie
  • But the other night with Ace marked my first kai kai, and it was in a toilet worse than that of a gay club.2020, Crystal Rasmussen, Tom Rasmussen, Diary of a Drag Queen. From the entry kai kai
  • After buying my girlfriend her branded bag, I’m officially pok kai, please don’t ask me to go shopping or clubbing with you.2015, “Pok Gai”, in Singaporelang - What the Singlish?, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2019. From the entry pok kai
  • Several things were needed before the family prayer started — water for washing hands, a chair for sitting and palm wine, or better still, strong drink, kai kai.1983, Edet A. Udo, Who are the Ibibio?, page 251. From the entry kai-kai

Meaning of kai

  1. noun Food.

Full definition of kai

Questions about kai in a sentence

How do you use kai in a sentence?
Kai is used as a noun. For example: “Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.”
What is a short sentence with kai?
“Kai raised his glance to mine, aghast.”
What does kai mean?
Kai means food.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kai (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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