Example sentences for: tribes

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

  • Others represent the tribes’ totemic animals, such as the bear, protecting a human being in his bosom.

  • It was also the time when the region was the homeland of the Canaanites and other tribes familiar from the Bible, which is still the best source of knowledge about ancient Israel.

  • Buffalo was everything to these tribes — food, clothes, and tents; and twelve to fourteen buffalo skins were needed to construct a single teepee.

  • Still others were given by neighboring tribes and, sometimes, even when the literal sense is known the connotations are unclear: for example, the Dakota name for the Iowa (Ayuhwa) Sleepy Ones; the Blackfoot name for the Kainah , a division of the Blackfoot, (Ah-kai-nah) Many Chiefs.

  • The Names of Some North American Indian Tribes


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