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Sikhs

Sikhs \Sikhs\, n. pl.; sing. Sikh. [Hind. Sikh, properly, a disciple.] A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.

Usage examples of "sikhs".

From what Amrita had told me, only the Sikhs had capitalized on the Green Revolution and modern agricultural technology to make a go of their extensive cooperative farms in the north of India.

Could itcould it possibly carry him out of the High Lab, away from the Sikhs and Sun Security?

He ate the bread slowly, chewing till it turned sweet in his mouth, and watched the two Sikhs silently watching him.

Under his orders Captain Lynes drew up inside the gate a strong guard of Sikhs with their rifles loaded and bayonets fixed.

The officers were at mess at nine o'clock in the evening, when a havildar of Sikhs burst into the courtyard with the news that the sound of a pick could be heard from the chamber of the tower.

The gunpowder bags, with their fuses attached, were distributed, the gates were suddenly flung open, and Lynes raced out with a hundred Ghurkhas and Sikhs across the fifty yards of open ground to the sangar behind which the mine shaft had been opened.

He was the subaltern in command of the half company of Sikhs which served Captain Phillips for an escort and a guard.

On the west stood the stables and the storehouses, and the barracks of the Sikhs, a square of buildings which would afford fine cover for an attacking force.

I suppose by now you realize that we Sikhs don't know much about the Church of the Testaments.

The division's Sikhs had all been airborne trained, Hawkins had told them, but War House had decided they'd retake the training.

In more profound trances, a meditator might be oblivious to physical events, but Sikhs didn't court oblivion or bliss.

He nodded acknowledgement of the introduction, telling himself the Sikhs had chosen him for the job.

A Sikh — and most metropolitan police tend to be Sikhs — would have been using the club on our heads.

As a people they tended to understand machinery, and although the majority of Sikhs inhabited the Punjab, they could be found driving taxis and operating heavy equipment throughout the country.

It was also the Sikhs who made up the upper echelons of the military and police forces.