maa

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned the work over, and I silently thanked my maa for teaching me that one side must look as well done as the other.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

“This is my maa and baap and my brothers and our cow, which we had to sell so I could marry you. This is our marketplace, where my baap has a stall to write letters.”

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Hari laughed so at the story that his coughing became worse, and his maa sent me angrily from the room.

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