Example sentences for: iroquois

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

  • In Ontario and Québec, where encroaching forests gradually dispersed the herds of caribou, the Iroquois ousted the Algonquin and settled down to cultivate maize, beans, and squash, living in rectangular, multifamily longhouses.

  • On the rue du Monument is a granite cross commemorating the wooden cross that Jacques Cartier planted on behalf of his French sovereign in front of a bemused audience of Iroquois.

  • The Iroquois killed thousands of Huron in all-out war, and two Jesuits, Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant, were tortured to death.

  • Vertebrate HB genes are divided into two classes: Class I genes (HOX genes) are organized into four clusters (HOX A, B, C, D) with a total of 39 members [ 8 ] . Members of Class II are also called divergent genes, including genes such as PAX, MSX, IRX, and DLX, named after their homologs in Drosophila (paired, muscle segment, Iroquois, and distal-less, respectively) [ 9 10 ] . Accumulating evidence suggests that homeobox genes are important in malignant transformation.

  • Montcalm was buried here after the battle, but only his skull remains, in a museum otherwise devoted to the convent’s first mother superior, who compiled the first dictionary of the Iroquois and Algonquin languages.


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