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1. Le Subtil is the sun of his tribe.
2. Many African tribes believe in reincarnation.
3. Schools will help to civilize the wild tribes there.
4. The tribe's traditional way of life is under threat.
5. name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIBE
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tribe
 n.  family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same direct ancestor, and kept distinct
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  I want somebody who's smart and energetic like Renny or Tommy Wellburn or Kells Whiting or one of the Simmons boys or--or any of that tribe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  We aren't a stiff-necked tribe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
4  She panted, "They will be cordial to me, because my man belongs to their tribe."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  DEVIL-DAM, I do not know the origin of; TIT-BIT is obvious; PEQUOD, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
7  The native bore both the tomahawk and knife of his tribe; and yet his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  My tribe is the grandfather of nations, but I am an unmixed man.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
9  "A Mingo is a Mingo, and God having made him so, neither the Mohawks nor any other tribe can alter him," he said, when he had regained his former position.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
10  His companions, who conversed apart in the language of their tribe, heeded not this sudden and earnest appeal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
11  These children of the woods stood together for several moments pointing at the crumbling edifice, and conversing in the unintelligible language of their tribe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
12  Le Subtil is the sun of his tribe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
13  An Indian seldom sleeps in war, and plunder may keep a Huron here after his tribe has departed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
14  A low murmur of applause announced that the compliment of the tribe was favorably received.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
15  His person was now protected by immemorial and sacred usage, until the tribe in council had deliberated and determined on his fate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
Example Sentence:
1  The tribe's traditional way of life is under threat.
2  The tribe's development was more primitive than that of their neighbours.
3  The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
4  The tribe's main economy is primitive agriculture and its wealth is sometimes counted in people as well as animals.
5  In the village a researcher said that the Siraya tribe is almost vanished; now everything is buried in the mud.
6  The African countries hoped to civilize all the primitive tribes on the land.
7  Many African tribes believe in reincarnation.
8  Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
9  Some tribes use special facial markings to signify status.
10  Schools will help to civilize the wild tribes there.
11  They separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful war-whoops, and killed each other by thousands.
12  Many of Yunnan nomadic tribes or those engaged in husbandry, in particular, relied on agricultural products from Sichuan.
13  Several nomadic tribes of Indians would hunt in this area each year.
14  In many primitive tribes, the leader and lawmaker was the patriarch.