Example sentences for: vikings

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

  • The Vikings may have made a hit-and-run raid on Newfoundland, but the Scandinavians who migrated to the Pacific NW in the 1800s were not Vikings.

  • In a previous "Letter From Washington," a NW chauvinist bragged that the Vikings not only were the first Europeans to visit the New World, but their descendants shaped the contemporary culture of the Pacific Northwest, creating a city of tolerance and egalitarian refinement.

  • According to critics, tribal team names set Indians apart from the rest of humanity--romantically projecting them into the mythic past (along with Trojans, Vikings, Pirates , and the like) or else degrading them to the cartoonlike level of Mud Hens, Golden Gophers , and other fabulous beasts.

  • The Falcons upset the Minnesota Vikings 30-27 after 1) the Vikings' kicker, who hadn't missed a kick in 122 consecutive attempts, botched a field goal with two minutes remaining; 2) the Falcons drove back down the field for the tying touchdown in the closing seconds; and 3) the Falcons drove for the winning field goal in sudden-death overtime.

  • Northwest Coast tribes like the Tlingit took heads and slaves, as did the Vikings.


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