How to Use Tamil in a Sentence

Tamil

noun
  • Nor the first time that Tamil Nadu seemed like the best launchpad for it.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • So far, the new species has been found at three sites roughly 40 miles apart in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • These hills are in Tamil Nadu and a roughly 1,600-mile drive south from New Delhi.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
  • Chennai is in the state of Tamil Nadu, where Tamil is the official language.
    — Karthik Chidambaram, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Chandran, who is of British Tamil heritage, will play the boys’ mother Amma.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 2 July 2024
  • So far, Gingee leaf-litter skinks have been found in two nearby sites of eastern Tamil Nadu, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • All three films were distributed in Tamil Nadu by Red Giant.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The company’s three co-founders, who hail from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were looking for easy ways to get a taste of home.
    — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 25 June 2024
  • Plus, the movie was released in Hindi, English, Tamil, and Telugu, to reach a wider audience.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Dammers was born in 1955 in Tamil Nadu, where his father, Horace, served as a chaplain at a missionary school.
    — Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • There are cash prizes for winners and international chess events have been held in Tamil Nadu.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • His family has been prominent in Tamil Nadu for hundreds of years.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Chennai, the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu, is one of India's largest cities and a major cultural and economic hub.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The dishes at the restaurant specializing in the cuisine of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have flavors that run deep.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The 2025 program will select four emerging directors to create short films in the Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil languages.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The film is due to release in November during the Deepavali holiday frame in Tamil, Telugu and a few other languages.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
  • So the local films that may come out in Kerala in Tamil are the films people actually anticipate.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 Nov. 2024
  • In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, for example, temperatures are already soaring at 104°F.
    — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
  • As a young actor of Eelam Tamil descent who's always been interested in the industry, Tharan has long yearned to see more women who look like her on the screen.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 8 June 2023
  • Google is reportedly partnering with Foxconn to make its Pixel phones in Tamil Nadu.
    — Beth Greenfield, Fortune Asia, 2 July 2024
  • The small state Kerala speaks a language called Malayalam, but the creative output from there is so high that movies and short series produced from there have the highest viewership in the Hindi belt, followed by Tamil.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The film is being shot simultaneously in the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • His wife, an eye doctor with an office below the barbershop, is Tamil Indian, like Harris’s mother.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
  • Wind power has long been a part of Tamil Nadu’s energy production, and more recently, solar power has become more of a priority.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In some traditions, such as bharatanatyam, from Tamil Nadu, temple dancers were typically of low caste, but, in the remade, classicized version of the form, bharatanatyam became largely the province of bourgeois Brahmin women.
    — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Many of the travelers were migrant workers, en route to Chennai, an urban metropolis in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officials said.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • These distinctly unique renditions are born from a rich history that dates back to the 1600s, when Tamil Nadu migrants arrived in Malaya and assimilated with the local Malay community.
    — Cheryl Tiu, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The Sri Lankan government’s elimination of the secessionist Tamil Tigers as a military force in 2009 is often cited as an example of the successful use of force against a terrorist group.
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Composer Alpha Something took inspiration from classic Tamil cinema for these bombastic pop songs, channeling the themes of specific composers and scoring trends over the years to match each decade in the game.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Neighbouring Tamil Nadu state announced that travelers coming from Kerala would be subjected to medical tests and those with flu symptoms would be isolated.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023

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