maa

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A part of me hoped that no one in the world would want me enough to take me away from my home and my maa and baap and brothers.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

"Now I'm a goat," Scott announced, making a maa sound.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

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 remembered how my maa had given me honey and ginger when I had a bad cold.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan