suttee in a sentence

Examples

1. Thailand reduced the lead in the 22nd minute when Suksomkit Suttee weaved his way into the box and netted the ball.
2. Kudra reveals she, herself, recently escaped suttee and the two find a common bond in their defiance of death.
3. Later, Miss Crane commits suicide by immolating herself in a burning shack, in the manner of a Hindu widow committing suttee.
4. When the king died, she did her wifely duty and threw herself on his funeral pyre according to the Hindu tradition of suttee.
5. One of Roy's goals was the banning of the custom of suttee, the immolation of widows on their husbands'funeral pyres.
6. Until the rebellion, they had enthusiastically pushed through social reform, like the ban on " suttee " by Lord William Bentinck.
7. Suttee _ the Hindu custom of cremating a deceased man together with his living widow _ was evil, no matter how many Hindus believed it honorable.
8. The British Empire, particularly in India, ruled all sorts of different heathens and upheld their religious rights ( excepting thugee and suttee ) with equanimity.
9. He was an 18th-century Bengali social reformer who spearheaded the movement to ban suttee, the Hindu practice of burning widows on the husband's funeral pyre.
10. This has led some archaeologists to suspect a form of suttee, where the female was the spouse of the male, and was killed to accompany him upon death.