How to Use hogan in a Sentence

hogan

noun
  • Dandy says that the hogan will serve as a refuge for students to keep them focused.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The hogan stays naturally cool in the summer and, thanks to a wood stove, warm enough in the winter.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Danielle Nelson holds her niece in the doorway of her family's modern hogan.
    — Kiliii Yüyan, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The Shash Diné hogans were constructed from juniper logs by a master craftsman, then covered with mud or clay.
    — Rona Berg, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • About 20 members of his family lined up outside their hogan, a traditional dwelling, to pay respects through the screen.
    — USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
  • All styles and sizes, from a cozy one bedroom to a large hogan-style cabin that can sleep 16 people, are hidden away on 13 secluded acres.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2022
  • Bikes, toys, trash, and a basketball hoop sit outside the hogan – a traditional one-room Navajo home, the door facing the rising sun to the east.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Siblings sleep in their cradleboards for a quiet moment inside their family's hogan on the Navajo Nation.
    — Kiliii Yüyan, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Raynelle Hoskie recently was hauling water for her six children and her in-laws who live next door in a small traditional Navajo home, or hogan.
    — azcentral, 12 May 2020
  • The family’s farm plot and hogan are now several hundred feet under Lake Powell, along with tens of thousands of cultural sites and burials.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • During the ceremony, an open fire pit had been burning inside the hogan, according to KOAT.
    — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Descheenie, who is from Chinle, said his mother was born in a hogan, traditional Diné home, and because of this she was never given a birth certificate.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The first design was a celebration of multiple architectural styles, from the Navajo’s hogans to the Great Plains tribes’ tipis.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
  • Born in a hogan, Laughter had no birth certificate, didn't drive, had no electric or water service at her home in the Navajo Nation and paid no property taxes.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2022

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