Example sentences for: polynesian

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

  • Both are Americans, from Hawaii, of Polynesian and Samoan ancestry.

  • Sometimes I feel trapped in a Polynesian cycle of humiliation by gift giving.

  • However, present-day Vietnamese uses Latin letters, as do many African, Asian, Polynesian, and Micronesian languages around the world.

  • The first Polynesian settlers brought much of what they needed, however, from pigs and chickens to bananas and taro, the root crop that would sustain them.

  • 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.


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