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cliff dweller

NOUN
  1. a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves

How To Use cliff dweller In A Sentence

  • The intersection of Desiderata and Jules Verne formed a kind of gulch, the balconied terraces of Freeside cliff dwellers rising gradually to the grassy tablelands of another casino complex. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
  • At the top of the stairs you turn right into the "kiva" -- the clubhouse of the 350 Cliff Dwellers. Chicago Reader
  • Cultivars include most of the cushaws, ‘Gila Cliff Dweller’, the silver-seeded gourds, and many of the sweet potato squashes and potato pumpkins
  • For Cather, visiting Mesa Verde is about recovering a period of time when people such as the cliff dwellers were ‘absolutely unenterprising in the modern American sense’.
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