Example sentences for: tribes

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

  • Tribes have, on occasion, opted for a blurring of boundaries (asking that state cops patrol reservation land, for example).

  • Prince Mieszko, leader of the Piast dynasty that ruled the Polonians, undertook the bold step to unify the Polanie (literally, “people of the fields”) and neighboring tribes.

  • Notice the huge wooden feast dishes, big as bathtubs, for dispensing food at the great “potlatch” ceremonies at which the tribes proclaimed their greatness by the munificence of their hospitality (see page 35).

  • The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d. had introduced Christianity.

  • The patronymics of powerful tribes such as Howard, Clarence, Cecil, Percy, Douglas, Bruce, Tudor , and Stuart are all seen as masculine.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast