Bangle example sentences
Despite long years of hard labour, first as a tailor, then a bangle maker, he has failed to renovate a house, send his two sons to school.As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.It is the centre of India's glass-blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seems.Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles.All he has managed to do is teach them what he knows — the art of making bangles.His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles.In this case the elder is an impoverished bangle maker.He has a roof over his head! The cry of not having money to do anything except carry on the business of making bangles, not even enough to eat, rings in every home.It will dawn on her suddenly one day when her head is draped with a red veil, her hands dyed red with henna, and red bangles rolled onto her wrists.Born in the caste of bangle makers, they have seen nothing but bangles — in the house, in the yard, in every other house, every other yard, every street in Firozabad.She still has bangles on her wrist, but no light in her eyes.She has not enjoyed even one full meal in her entire lifetime — that's what she has reaped! Her husband, an old man with a flowing beard, says, “I know nothing except bangles.Spirals of bangles — sunny gold, paddy green, royal blue, pink, purple, every colour born out of the seven colours of the rainbow — lie in mounds in unkempt yards, are piled on four-wheeled handcarts, pushed by young men along the narrow lanes of the shanty town.“It is his karam, his destiny,” says Mukesh's grandmother, who has watched her own husband go blind with the dust from polishing the glass of bangles.The loaves were bought by some Paskine or Bastine, the maid-servant of the house! What we longed for were those bread-bangles which we chose carefully.
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