Example sentences for: caribou

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

  • This proved particularly convenient for the Caribou Inuit practice of co-marriage: two couples would exchange sexual partners, not in a casual way, but as a real alternate marriage, strengthening ties between two interlocking families.

  • 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.

  • Deer and moose abound for the hunters; farther north there are herds of caribou, and, up towards the Arctic Circle, a few polar bears, too.

  • 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.

  • 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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