Example sentences for: iroquois

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

  • Next to the church is the Seminary of St-Sulpice, Montréal’s oldest surviving edifice, built in 1685 to lead the missionary work among the Iroquois.

  • The Frenchmen applied the term to the Iroquois inhabitants of that region on account of the Indians' barbarous appearance and rough-cut hair.

  • To halt the Iroquois advance, the French community of 300 burned their own village and returned to Québec.

  • Iroquois clothes and artifacts give a hint of life outside the stockade.

  • 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.


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