How to Use Choctaw in a Sentence

Choctaw

noun
  • In 1909, two girls – one white and one Choctaw – subsist in the woods after fleeing abuse.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-06-18
  • The head prosecutor for the Choctaw Nation said that the tribe’s caseload increased by more than two thousand per cent.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 2024-08-05
  • But the Jackets bothered Choctaw with their run-and-jump defensive pressure in the second half and upped their production.
    — Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, 2021-03-04
  • Native American Choctaw Indians were the first to use this spice as a seasoning.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 2023-02-14
  • According to the press release, there were five Choctaw police officers at the game, per usual, as well as two officers on duty who stopped by.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 2023-08-27
  • New insights into the potato famine in Ireland were revealed, as well as the oppression of the Choctaw Nation.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-10-26
  • Our latest taco excursion takes us to a restaurant in Choctaw Stadium, the former home of the Texas Rangers.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 2024-07-16
  • Coming from Choctaw Nation descent, Bell captured in his art Indigenous culture and wildlife.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-08-01
  • Some assistance has come from the Choctaw Nation, the country’s third-largest Native American tribe.
    — Julie Satow, New York Times, 2023-11-10
  • Teams will use Choctaw Stadium, and high school facilities in Mansfield and Southlake.
    — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2025-01-31
  • The director also insisted on meeting with the Choctaw Nation to get their input and develop a partnership.
    — Laura Clark, Variety, 2023-11-03
  • Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 2024-06-21
  • In the town of Choctaw, east of Oklahoma City, firefighters and police officers went door to door Sunday morning to ask about injuries.
    — Associated Press, TIME, 2024-11-03
  • Before European colonization, Louisiana was home to more than a dozen tribes, including the Chitimacha and Choctaw.
    — Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 2021-07-19
  • Interestingly, etymologists disagree about whether gumbo gets its name from kombo (the Choctaw word for filé) or gombo (the word for okra in several West African languages).
    — Leslie Brenner, Dallas News, 2023-03-30
  • An obituary published by the family said Benedict, a descendant of the Choctaw Nation, loved nature and cats, particularly their pet Zeus.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 2024-03-02
  • The play is about the experience of the outsider in America—immigrants, the Choctaw, the Black majority in Mississippi; those themes feel very clear and strong in the text.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 2023-07-21
  • In Choctaw County, this group likely includes a significant portion of the working-class Native population, whose Democratic allegiance is on the wane.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 2024-04-26
  • As Fisk’s criminal empire closes in, episodes open with mysticism-heavy flashbacks to the first Choctaw people and to some mystical source of ambiguous power that Maya is tentatively beginning to tap into.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-01-09
  • No power lines were downed and no serious injuries have been reported in Choctaw, which is on the southeast corner of Oklahoma City and took a direct hit from a tornado that was on the ground for about 20 miles, Allcox said.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 2024-11-04
  • Grimsley, who oversees the Choctaw tribe’s drone efforts and the piece of land where companies come to test and fly, was one of the people involved in drafting the report the FAA ultimately used to write the rule, and has been following this closely over the last 20 years of his career.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Gulfside then teamed up with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to challenge the awarding of the license to the two entities, and eventually succeeded in having that license declared null and void by the Arkansas Supreme Court in late 2023.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The Hopi-Choctaw artist born in 1947 has been at the vanguard of contemporary Native American art since enrolling as a member of the first class of 140 students at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM in 1962.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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