How to Use tribal in a Sentence

tribal

adjective
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  • That means efforts could ramp up to find Risling and Juan and a list of other tribal members who’ve been lost.
    — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The Kimbell already owns superb works of African and Oceanic tribal art.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The restaurant also serves beef raised and slaughtered on the Choctaw Nation, and its gift shop will soon sell items made by tribal members.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The film centers on the murders of Osage people in the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Eight tribal nations have yet to reach any agreement over how much water they’re owed in Arizona.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Now, all tribal Covid-data is available in one place, available to all researchers.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Then, as now, tribal elders handed down a death sentence to those visible in the footage, leading to the deaths of at least eight people.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Officials say that the owners of the dogs that attacked the boy and his mother were non-tribal members who owned the property where the attack took place.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • There’s something so dangerous about that, and so tribal.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 9 July 2023
  • Many tribal elders see the tent city on the sacred pow-wow grounds as an affront and the harm reduction team’s efforts as enabling.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
  • An ecstatic tribal dance unfolds around a cutout of Lenin’s head—ancient and modern cults fused.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • In the 1922 compact, though, tribal nations are mentioned only in passing.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The plot is based on a series of murders that took place in 1920s Oklahoma after oil was discovered on tribal land.
    — Brooke Lamantia, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Line 5 crosses tribal lands, runs beneath the water and needs major upgrades.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The increase in Potawatomi revenue lags that of other tribal and Las Vegas casinos.
    — Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In Mexico, the standard of proof to claim Yaqui tribal heritage is being born in Río Yaqui, how much tribal ancestry.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
  • But the tribal nations are getting a lot of attention in part because of new government policies.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Tribes across the region contend that the oil pipeline is infringing on tribal sovereignty and treaty rights, and have urged the Biden administration to speak out against the pipeline.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In 2019 the school hired its first non-Jesuit leader, and many of Red Cloud's administrators are now tribal members who grew up on the reservation.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • But Pasqual notes that tribal communities have shouldered the burden of this work — both the financial cost and the emotional distress.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Today, the tribal council is made up of five direct descendants of Mary Ann, Roberta’s daughter, and her siblings.
    — Karthika Gupta, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The lack of global solutions is moving the world toward tribal solutions.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • According to the Pashtun tribal tradition, though, women have no such right.
    — Ross McDonnell, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The county's poor and home to tribal governments that have historically missed out.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
  • An example of trying to restore a critter is the reintroduction of bison to tribal lands.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The new rule requires that those items not be displayed without tribal permission or if within the process of repatriation.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • That meant tribal members could make the same sort of lucrative development deals being made elsewhere in town.
    — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
  • As far as some tribal and environmental activists are concerned, many of those dams never should have been built.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Most of these residents settled into a 1 square-mile tract of tribal land known as Section 14 – prime real estate near downtown Palm Springs.
    — Tien Bischoff, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Horace would go on to serve as the tribal chief and the nonvoting Penobscot representative in the State Legislature.
    — Will Dudding, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023

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