How to Use tribespeople in a Sentence

tribespeople

plural noun
  • Few of his tribespeople believe that that accounts for all the money.
    — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Not long ago, her tribespeople were forbidden to speak their own language.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Some tribespeople are often found to be in cahoots with drug smugglers and cartels to stash or traffic drugs.
    — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Decades ago, there were more options for Indigenous tribespeople.
    — Sheikh Saaliq, ajc, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Here in Jordan, the Bedouin—nomadic Arab tribespeople—have roamed the sands for centuries.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2022
  • In the same year, photos emerged of tribespeople living deep in the rainforest of the western Brazilian state of Acre.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Dug is a cipher of a hero who’s constantly upstaged by his fellow tribespeople, who in turn get upstaged by a sentient warthog named Hognob.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • As is often the case, the lizard may be new to science but the local tribespeople – the Agta and Ilongot – have known about it for centuries.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2010
  • There, rangers have been tasked with keeping Baka tribespeople out of vast areas of rainforest that have been designated as protected.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • So do children, or remote tribespeople, instinctively understand that two parallel lines never cross?
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
  • Their families, proud Sunni tribespeople, appealed for justice, then called for reform of the regime, and finally demanded its removal.
    — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • There’s more palpable empathy, chased by a jolt of shock and revulsion, when the film zeroes in on local tribespeople maintaining their everyday routine amid the tumult.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Midthunder’s Naru enlivens the female-empowerment plot, in which her character is mocked by her fellow tribespeople for wanting to do something other than cook.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
  • This storm felled hundreds of thousands of trees, destroyed numerous houses, sank ships and killed scores of people, including eight Wampanaog tribespeople drowned by the 14-foot storm surge.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2020
  • Finally, to determine what this approach to resting might mean for legs and muscles, the scientists asked several tribespeople to sit, walk and squat while wearing sensors that chart muscular contractions.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • There are Andean peaks and Amazonian jungles, gaucho prairies and colonial towns, indigenous tribespeople and a wild Pacific coast.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2019
  • On Tuesday, clashes reportedly broke out between the Meitei community and some tribespeople.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • On the other are Houthi tribespeople, who hail from the country’s north, which is dominated by members of the Zaidi Shiite sect, and who enjoy support from Iran.
    — Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Germany apologised on May 28 for its role in the slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Survival International, which campaigns for indigenous people, said it was told by Baka tribespeople that a group of women had been promised a meeting with management about the destruction of crops by elephants.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Baka tribespeople in the Republic of Congo say African Parks rangers have raped and tortured them, leading to the organization launching an investigation.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In dramatizing the horrific killings of oil-rich Osage tribespeople by murderously greedy white men, our reigning master of the American crime epic directs his gaze and ours toward America’s foundational crimes.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Taken together, the two films yield a fascinating, complex look at Chad in the 1970s, from the perspective of its native tribespeople and European journalists/aid workers/archaeologists alike.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026

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