How to Use tribe in a Sentence

tribe

noun
Definition of tribenext
Synonyms for tribenext
  • The job is not to contact the tribes but to protect them.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • How did Danny convince the rest of the tribe to get rid of her?
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • By the end of the decade, every tribe would win the right to casino gambling.
    — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The fee is assessed after the tribe pays the state about $20 million.
    — Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The book picks up the mythology of the Dogon tribe of Mali in West Africa.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2023
  • So also on the list is a tribe called Quest, rage against the machine.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • So, Carter had to figure out new ways to make each tribe feel unique.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Many refugees from Myanmar are part of the Chin tribes, which share ethnic roots with the Kukis.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • This year, the tribe plans to have five new solar projects active by May.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The tribe will then seek to set up trusts for those properties, too.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • If that is not possible, the child should be placed with a member of their tribe.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • At least 37 Native tribes and nations have historic ties to the land.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024
  • Without a settlement, the tribes would be at the mercy of courts.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 24 May 2024
  • Bad Bear, a member of the Crow tribe, got in foul trouble in the first half and managed just 11 points and six rebounds.
    — Joseph D’hippolito, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, there was a tribe waiting to be that was natively hostile to the ideas that were in the book.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Oct. 2023
  • For the youngest of the stick-carrying tribe, these Bruins have no doubt inspired.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • And for decades, leaders of the tribe struggled to secure their water rights.
    — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • With minutes to spare before the other tribes arrived, Hunter found the idol in the sand near wooden steps.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In 1971, the Philippines shocked the world when a primitive stone-age tribe — the Tasaday — was found in the rainforests of Mindanao.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • And for no tribe of workers does the question make more sense than for book editors.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • As Orange makes clear, the family’s, and tribe’s, source of strength is still their heritage.
    — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Then, one by one, members of the tribe began to rise and share stories about Mary Goudy-Settler.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The tribe is planning to reintroduce beavers next spring; their dams will help keep more water in the meadows near the groves.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The Algonquin tribes of the Northeast reportedly called this month's moon the Buck Moon – a nod to the deer that emerge this time of year.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 July 2024
  • The Native American tribe has lived along the river for thousands of years.
    — Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In pre-independent India, the tribe began to sell snakes to the British, who wanted their skins.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Now the agency is poised to approve the project anyway, without consulting the tribe.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • His family, members of the Achakzai tribe, blamed their longtime rivals: the Noorzai.
    — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Siobhan, now 55, is an Alaska Native of the Athabascan tribe.
    — Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Tribal leaders say that Idaho and other states in the case have long ignored tribes’ attempts to have their rights considered.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024

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