Example sentences for: inuit

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

  • At the same time, these ancestors of the Inuit moved out of their skin tents into warmer igloos of hardened snow blocks.

  • With no written culture to document it, the pre-European history of the Inuit and other early peoples is a vague archaeological patchwork of bones, stones, and artifacts.

  • There is also an academic distinction between Inuit and Eskimo, as explained by Alan D. Macmillan, a British Columbia professor of anthropology:

  • Revenue from outside sources minus an effective opposition plus a co-opted population is a formula for disaster, regardless of whether the government is controlled by Inuit, whites, or South Sea Islanders."

  • This proved particularly convenient for the Caribou Inuit practice of co-marriage: two couples would exchange sexual partners, not in a casual way, but as a real alternate marriage, strengthening ties between two interlocking families.


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