Example sentences for: chieftains

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

  • Actually, he probably would have fit in pretty well with the corporate chieftains of the late 1950s and early 1960s, when there was no foreign and not much domestic competition and the old-boy network was in full effect.

  • Farther east is Thunderbird Park, home of the city’s most important collection of Indian carvings — Tsimshian and Haida totem poles, Salish sculpture of their chieftains, and a reconstructed Kwakiutl longhouse.

  • But the top of New York society consists of people who make far more money than magazine editors do--investment bankers, corporate chieftains, and fashion designers.

  • The Guanches are not forgotten either: ten chieftains stand guard in a row, with their backs to the Atlantic.

  • Well, we've both been admonished from the Slate chieftains for straying from the news of the day.


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