Example sentences for: chieftain

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

  • Call him a roguish tribal chieftain or an ornery sociopath, he is what he is.

  • When a couple of police detectives ask a Mafia chieftain (Ben Gazzara) for help in their search for the serial killer, the local bully boys show a little too much fascist zeal, keeping tabs on people's movements and pulling strangers out of cars.

  • [From a letter, by David B. Johnson of Socorro, to the Editor, Defensor Chieftain , .

  • Away from Las Canteras make your first stop Doramas Parque, a pleasantly landscaped park named after a Guanche island chieftain, and adjacent to the park is the Pueblo Canario (Canary Village).

  • Were the legions of reporters to look as closely at Tung's business as they do his politics, moreover, they might discover that he is closer to a Korean chaebol chieftain than to a Hong Kong entrepreneur.


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