Example sentences for: scalps

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

  • Our popular image of the North American Indian is conditioned by Hollywood’s stereotype — feather headdress, necklace of scalps, and whooping war dances around the campfire — which in fact derived from the prairie tribes, or Plains Indians, as they are known to American anthropologists.

  • But I saw no teen-age, adult, or elderly blondes whose blond hair actually covered their scalps all the way to the roots.

  • Wayne Kekiongas (or “Bare Scalps” as we might call them today) in essence preserved a tradition of verbal humor and nameplay that the Miami themselves had cheerfully begun.

  • The Canadian War Museum, 330 Sussex Drive, starts with Indian warfare, including the battle prizes of scalps and skulls, and ends with the Normandy D-Day landings in World War II.


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