wigwam

How To Use wigwam In A Sentence

• In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
• Small, single-family wigwams and pit dwellings are also documented.
• The Barrymore of Camp Wigwam fended off two curious Barbizonians with elaborate legpulls; one girl returned to the real world convinced that he was a goalie for the Montreal Canadiens.
• By the late 1880s many Ojibwa lived in one-room log cabins, frame cabins, or tar paper shacks rather than in wigwams.
• As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and The Jungle Book.
• Look up and around as you enter its celebrated conical concrete "wigwam" - designed and built within five years from 1962 - and you get drawn into one of 20th-century Britain's grandest colour experiences. The Guardian World News
• The wigwam was a bit bigger than I had imagined and looked comfortable enough, especially since we would have to get up at 4am. Devil o’ the Highlands Footrace 2009 #1
• Out of the wigwam crawled the boy who'd shot the arrow.
• All varieties of peas and beans (except dwarf ones), and other climbers including cucumbers and karella, are best grown up in wigwams, which can easily be constructed out of canes, thin pieces of wood or other available material.
• They are self-sufficient, with an outdoor kitchen and a wigwam with its own wood burner.