Example sentences for: eskimo

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

  • Hannibal's elephants did not have to give way to oncoming traffic (there was none) and cries of “Mush, mush” are presumably all that has ever been required on polar ice-caps to urge on Eskimo dogs.

  • In an Eskimo village near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, they sampled server software made with whale blubber, as the natives have been doing it for thousands of years.

  • Flaherty's famous portrait of an Eskimo's daily struggle to survive was the first attempt to join documentary filmmaking to personal vision, in Flaherty's case a vision of humankind's struggle to overcome Nature.

  • One could, therefore, simplify matters by saying that Canadian and Greenland--but not Alaskan or Siberian-- Eskimos are Inuit . Although, as it so happens, according to Macmillan, at the first Inuit Circumpolar Conference, held in Barrow, Alaska, in 1977, Inuit from Alaska, Canada, and Greenland officially adopted the term Inuit for all peoples formerly known as Eskimo, despite linguistic differences.

  • The novel, the first by Chuck Palahniuk (the surname sounds like Eskimo for "palooka"--which somehow fits), walks a line between the straight and ironic--it isn't always clear if its glib sociological pronouncements are meant to be taken straight or as the ravings of a delusional mama's boy.


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