How to Use Pawnee in a Sentence

Pawnee

noun
  • Rael-Gálvez later learned that panana means Pawnee.
    — Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The pair attempts to hold a shotgun wedding during a gala for the new Pawnee Commons park.
    — Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Pawnee National Grassland is about 75 miles away.
    — Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • But the real selling point, according Pawnee City officials, is the quality of life on offer.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
  • As fans become consumed with the horrors of Widow’s Bay, there’s a version of the show that took place in Pawnee, Indiana.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 June 2026
  • Here, community isn’t just a vague ideal but a synced heartbeat shared by all, whether that means showing up to pep rallies or trading sacks of dusty, fragrant ‘Pawnee’ pecans with neighbors and friends.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Galentine's Day got its start in the sitcom 'Parks and Recreation,' set in the fictional Pawnee, Indiana.
    — Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The workplace comedy, done in the style of The Office, centered around the employees in charge of the parks in the town of Pawnee, Indiana.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 July 2024
  • Okfuskee, Creek, Osage, Pawnee, and Washington should also expect frost.
    — Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Pawnee Buttes is a variety of Western sandcherry that has white blossoms in the early spring that attract early-season bees and other pollinators.
    — Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kiowa, Morton, Pawnee, Seward and Stevens counties.
    — Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kiowa, Morton, Pawnee, Seward and Stevens counties.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kiowa, Morton, Pawnee, Seward and Stevens counties.
    — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 14 Nov. 2025
  • On season 2 episode 10, the rest of the Pawnee Parks Department go hunting while April and Andy stay at City Hall.
    — Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The comedy show, highlighting characters like Leslie Knope, is set in the fictional Pawnee, Indiana.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In the Pawnee National Grassland of far northeastern Colorado are twin mounds that rise 300 feet above the prairie, dominating the view for miles.
    — R. Scott Rappold, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026
  • By 1900, disease, war, genocidal policies and the trauma of removal left only hundreds of our Pawnee to carry on our language, culture, and history.
    — Crystal Echo Hawk, ELLE, 23 June 2023
  • The Prothes have around 2,000 pecan trees that produce a variety of pecans from grafted, Pawnee, Kansa, Baruch and other northern varieties.
    — Kendrick Calfee june 6, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
  • The Master of None star discussed his time in Pawnee with his former Parks and Recreation costar Amy Poehler on her podcast Good Hang.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Knope, played by Amy Poehler, loved public service work in Pawnee, Indiana, and Sampson wants to deliver local news to the people of Toledo.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Initial reports from Wednesday’s storms include at least two in western Illinois and two in central Illinois, near Charleston and Pawnee Junction.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Pawnee Plunge temporarily shut down during the incident, but later reopened and is now operating normally, the Columbus Fire Department said.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • When the subject of mentor Greg Daniels' spinoff toThe Office, The Paper, and whether that sparked any inspiration for revisiting Pawnee, Schur shut down the idea.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Widow’s Bay never feels more like Parks and Recreation than in scenes set in the town’s museum, which offers glimpses of a long, strange history that often play like dark spins on similar revelations of Pawnee, Indiana’s past.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026
  • It's been a decade since Mike Schur bid farewell to the town of Pawnee as Parks and Recreation ended its seven-season run in 2015, and the prolific show creator stands firm in his decision not to revisit it.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Oklahoma state Representative Ty Burns, a Republican from Pawnee, on Thursday pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of domestic abuse and two misdemeanor counts of assault.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • On Pawnee Place, Fremont, in July 2022, a 1,776-square-foot home was sold for $2,800,000, a price per square foot of $1,577.
    — Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Comanche, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Apache, Caddo, and Wichita and Affiliated tribes all have historical roots in North Texas.
    — Dallas Morning News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In about 80 minutes, the drive will take you by Rocky Mountain National Park, the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland, and the Indian Peaks Wilderness area.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Upon responding to the Pawnee Plunge waterpark in Columbus, Nebraska on Monday, June 1, the Columbus Fire Department, alongside other personnel, treated 12 people exposed to chlorine gas, according to a Columbus Fire Department news release.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 3 June 2026

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