Example sentences for: huron

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

  • Tough coureurs de bois sought furs from the Huron in Ontario and Algonquin in Québec, quickly learning language and customs and even marrying into the tribes.

  • Alas, if Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior are nowhere in the brain, HOMES will not put them there.

  • When I was young, we took family vacations near Lake Huron, where pronunciation was subject to the same lack of certainty, providing the potential for some proverbial southwestern Ontario jocularity.

  • Mackinaw, the name of the island at the junction of Lakes Huron and Michigan, according to one explanation at least, was a shortening of Michili-mackinac, meaning `great turtle.

  • It must be said that the Huron were less interested in conversion to Christianity than in the goods to be gained from the fur traders who followed the priests on this first French settlement in Ontario.


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