Example sentences for: tribe

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

  • Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d. 1150, leaving it to be repopulated by the Southern Paiutes, another hunter-gatherer tribe.

  • It's the handiwork of the Shuar, a notoriously ferocious tribe that inhabits the forests of Ecuador and Peru.

  • He brought Dayak leaders onto his ruling council but favored the time-honored colonial practice of divide-and-rule by pitting one tribe against another to keep the peace.

  • One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."

  • Near the starting point, women from the neighboring village (members of the Sani tribe of the Yi nationality) sell embroidered blouses, bags, and assorted knickknacks.


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