Teng Hsiao-ping

/ (ˈtɛŋ sjaʊ ˈpɪŋ) /

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noun

a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Deng Xiaoping

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Words nearby Teng Hsiao-ping

tenet, tenfold, ten-four, ten-gallon hat, tenge, Teng Hsiao-ping, Tengri Khan, Tengri Nor, Ten Gurus, tenia, teniacide

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How to use Teng Hsiao-ping in a sentence

Anyone with the intellect of a ping-pong ball should understand how opportunistic that whistleblowing looks.
An Ivy League Frat Boy’s Shallow Repentance|Stefan Beck|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Meanwhile, Kiev and Moscow passed the fault for the tragedy to each other, as if they were playing ping pong with the tragedy.
MH17 Black Box ‘Sent to Moscow for Investigation’|Anna Nemtsova|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Air marshal Houston was careful to make it clear that, however encouraging, the ping detections were not in itself enough.
Can Anyone Find MH370 If It’s in a Million Pieces?|Clive Irving|April 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A second “ping” then put the phone in the vicinity of a shopping center in Kissimmee.
The Teen Love Letters that Led to a Tragic Murder-Suicide in Florida|Michael Daly|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

For some hours after all other communications stopped, the airplane was sending a “ping” recording its presence to a satellite.
The Baseless Rush to Blame the Pilots of Flight 370|Clive Irving|March 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And when the opening tone of the first line is a ping, the opening tone of the line following must be tseh, and vice versa.
Chinese Poems|Various
Public gardens had special ping-pong tables to relieve the stress.
As A Chinaman Saw Us|Anonymous
In Yu-ping, therefore, loyalty wears a fully round face and about the yamen of Shan Tien men speak almost in set terms.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours|Ernest Bramah
Pictures of adult ping-pong champions were blazoned in the public print; even churchmen took it up.
As A Chinaman Saw Us|Anonymous
Doctors advised it, children cried for it, and a fashionable journal devised the correct ping-pong costume for players.
As A Chinaman Saw Us|Anonymous