Example sentences for: polynesian

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

  • Whereas Chatterbox seems to share the blissfully indifferent sensibilities of the Polynesian islander Queequeg, celebrated thusly by Herman Melville in Moby Dick : "Savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them.

  • A second wave of Polynesian immigrants from Tahiti arrived centuries later.

  • Seems there's something there called the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, which gives out money to Hawaiians of Polynesian origin, and to no one else.

  • Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.

  • The languages discussed here are what are usually called the Indo-European family; similar family trees could be drawn for the Semitic languages, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese, Bantu, Malayo-Polynesian, and so on.


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