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.

  • 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.

  • The Bishop Museum is a repository of Hawaiiana and its Polynesian legacies (see page 36).

  • 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.

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


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