Example sentences for: hula

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

  • Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).

  • Buchanan even uses the word "deterrence," though he doesn't use "Mutually Assured Destruction," "Bakelite," or "hula hoop."

  • While such island societies might seem less than Edenic, the early Hawaiians led a pleasurable life, singing their own histories to the beat of gourds, riding the waves on long wooden surfboards, and developing an elaborate, graceful form of story-dance, the hula.

  • Spurred on by the “Hawaii Calls” live radio program broadcast weekly to the US, Canada, and Australia from Waikiki, millions fell under the spell of a new island paradise of surf and hula aimed at tourists.

  • He also legalized the hula, Hawaii’s traditional dance.


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