Example sentences for: caribou

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

  • By 8000 b.c., Indians were hunting caribou in Nova Scotia.

  • The Gwich'in, "the people of the caribou," oppose development of the Arctic coastal plain, to which the caribou migrate to breed.

  • In Ontario and Québec, where encroaching forests gradually dispersed the herds of caribou, the Iroquois ousted the Algonquin and settled down to cultivate maize, beans, and squash, living in rectangular, multifamily longhouses.

  • Writing in the fall issue of Doubletake--Robert Coles' slick magazine of essays, photographs, reportage, and poetry--McKibben accuses commercial wildlife photographers of needlessly stressing caribou and other critters by stalking them by airplane.

  • Like their Algonquin cousins back in the woodlands of Québec and Ontario, they showed a great talent for hunting — moose, beaver, bear, caribou, and seal — with bow and arrow, traps, and harpoon.


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