How to Use Shiva in a Sentence

Shiva

noun
  • Lord Shiva grants blessings to those who worship him through offering leaves from the wood apple tree.
    — Robert J. Stephens, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
  • There are instances where the character Shiva is seen without the hijab.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Shiva was scheduled for Wednesday evening at Bryn Mawr Country Club.
    — Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The Shakti and Shiva streams are made up almost entirely of high-alpha, low-metallicity stars.
    — Georgina Torbet, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
  • As the story is told, Vishnu disguised himself as her husband Jalandhar so that the god Shiva could kill the demon in a fight.
    — Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
  • There is also a daily temple ritual held at the 162-year-old Lord Shiva Temple led by a priest.
    — Jessica Kelly, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Riders were shot 80 feet in the air to face the angry god Shiva, then swung close to stalactites and dangled upside-down over lava pits for what seemed an eternity.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The skin care range from Shiva Rose is made with Ayurvedic herbs, flowers, fruits and organic oils that reduce inflammation and replenish skin.
    — Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The Bodies house was this huge spooky mansion, and the Shiva Baby house had just one bathroom, but there was this instant camaraderie and connection.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Featuring a costume from each of the bard’s 38 plays, produced over the past six decades, the storied Shiva Theater is all decked out with drag worn by the greatest of the greats.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The deity Shiva was reportedly a stoner, and devotees honored him by stuffing charas into clay or stone pipes called chillums, and entering psychotropic trances.
    — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The film revisits the folk tale of Kannappa, an atheist hunter who became a devotee of Hindu god Shiva and plucked out his eyes in an act of extreme devotion.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The others, led by Hamid’s ex-girlfriend Shiva, an artist who makes a living as a wedding photographer, believe that their prisoner should be given the chance to defend himself.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This was because Jalandhar, born from Shiva’s third eye, had previously won a boon from the god Brahma that his wife’s chastity would keep him invincible in any battle.
    — Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The evening also commemorated Gil Shiva, posthumously, with the Chairman’s Award.
    — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In Hindu mythology, the god Shiva tied the waterway to Earth with his matted locks; a priest told me that to approach the temple via the tangle of pedestrian lanes that have surrounded it for centuries was to climb those locks.
    — Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Figueroa immediately informed Oduko's brother in Ghana, Shiva, of his arrest, and the siblings initially kept it from their mother, Rita, to avoid upsetting her.
    — Janelle Griffith, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Rachel Sennott, the actress known for roles in titles like Shiva Baby and Bottoms, who has her own upcoming HBO series, penned the script with Rachel and Travis Jackson.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025

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