maa

Example Sentences

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Author-Critic Lewis Mumford is a hard maa to please.

From Time Magazine Archive

A moment later Hari’s maa stood beside me.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

There were days when my maa took only a bit of rice for herself so that the rest of us—my baap, my brothers, and I—might have more.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

“I’ll work the farm, but I’ll have to live with my uncle until I fix the house. It’s fallen apart since my maa and baap died.”

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

I was so lost in amusing Hari with the pictures on my quilt, I didn’t hear his maa come into the room.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan