Example sentences for: carib

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

  • As the number of Taíno and Carib laborers declined, due to disease and suicide, plantation owners eventually began importing slaves from West Africa.

  • They also feared an earthly evil: the Carib Indians, who periodically raided their land for loot and captives.

  • The word “cannibal” derives from Carib, a reminder of the way these marauders disposed of some prisoners.

  • A ritualistic mark of bravery for Carib warriors was cannibalism, and it’s for this that history most remembers the Indians who invented the hammock and gave their name to the Caribbean.


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