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.

  • 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.

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

  • The indigenous peoples have been here for 9,000 years and have left their colored pictographs of moose, caribou, bears, and turtles etched in the granite cliffs.

  • 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.


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