Example sentences for: tribes

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

  • Flat-Head , for example, refers to several tribes (Catawba, Chinook, Choctaw, Waxshaw, et al.) that once practised head-flattening; and the Yellowknife , an Algonquian people living east of Great Slave Lake, Canada, were so named from their use of copper implements: pedestrian names, these, in which inventiveness played no part.

  • Pro-gambling tribes spent two-thirds of that total.

  • Beyond them were the tribes of the native Ainu, at that time not considered “Japanese. ”

  • Gambling as an enterprise among American Indian tribes has exploded in recent years.

  • Incensed tribes have pointed out that the court's ruling stripped them of their safety net, making their sovereignty moot.


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