Example sentences for: arawak

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

  • These Indians, also from South America, swept north in fast seagoing canoes, attacking and either eating or driving Arawak men off island after island, then appropriating their women.

  • But he stayed long enough to see his first parrots and to marvel at the fact that the Indians spoke three languages — one strictly between the warriors, another for the mostly Arawak women, and a third for ordinary communication between men and women.

  • Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.

  • Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.

  • The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an Amerindian society that originated on the north coast of South America.


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