Example sentences for: totem

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

  • And most polls show that the American public ranks lower taxes low on the totem pole of priorities for the government.

  • Small wonder Shirley Phillips says, "Being a ___________ makes one feel subhuman and as low on the totem pole as one can get."

  • Look for the 38-m (114-ft) totem pole carved by Chief Mungo Martin and believed to be the tallest in existence.

  • Farther east is Thunderbird Park, home of the city’s most important collection of Indian carvings — Tsimshian and Haida totem poles, Salish sculpture of their chieftains, and a reconstructed Kwakiutl longhouse.

  • Carpentry is the most valued of Kwakiutl skills, and is spectacularly displayed in their totem poles.


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