ma

Example Sentences

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"Good afternoon ma, I have not seen the hospital items"

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

The 68-year-old ma capsized his sailboat in the marina basin and was attempting to swim to shore with his boat when witnesses saw him go under the water, officials said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024

In his work, for example, he was as intrigued by the barrel vault — a form common to Roman architecture — as he was by Japanese concepts of in-between space, known as ma.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022

The first gallery — voluminous, glowing, visually still — introduced the Japanese concept of ma, sometimes described as an emptiness full of possibilities, into a Western ensemble of forms straight from the geometry book.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

“Electric storm is the ma and pa,” one said.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia