Example sentences for: algonquin

How can you use “algonquin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was the rush of those streams that inspired the Algonquin name Manitonga Sontana, Mountain of the Trembling Spirit, emitting its muffled boom when man disturbed its peace.

  • Tough coureurs de bois sought furs from the Huron in Ontario and Algonquin in Québec, quickly learning language and customs and even marrying into the tribes.

  • Québec is said to be derived from an Algonquin word meaning “where the river narrows,” and this becomes most apparent when you see the city’s great outcrop of rock, jutting out over the St. Lawrence.

  • Although the quip and the wisecrack are usually quite shallow, George S. Kaufman, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, managed to turn the wisecrack into an art form.

  • The desired effect appeared in the movies on the heads of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich and their glamorous colleagues, such as Gene Tierney in Laura in her scene at the Algonquin with Clifton Webb.


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