Example sentences for: tribesmen

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

  • For nearly 300 years, Islamic conquest in India was confined to this trading community in Sind, but in the tenth century, tribesmen from Turkistan, driven west by Chinese expansion, set up a state at Ghazni and began raids across the border to plunder Hindu temples.

  • The murderers were said to be a band of machete-wielding Hutu rebels, remnants of the forces that massacred more than half a million rival Tutsi tribesmen and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.

  • For 48 continuous hours, the tribesmen devote themselves to singing and dancing, wrestling matches, bullfights (actually, water buffalo fighting each other), feasting, and romancing.

  • Backed by Pakistan, Pathan tribesmen invaded Kashmir in 1947 to force the issue, but were soon repulsed by Indian troops flown in when the maharaja hastily acceded to India.

  • Security Council set up a tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, to investigate the mass murders in Rwanda . This tribunal has indicted important figures thanks to the cooperation of Hutu and Tutsi leaders who have turned in their own accused tribesmen.


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