How to Use Inuit in a Sentence

Inuit

noun

• The Inuit describe the aurora as a pathway to the heavens.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
• There was no room for First Nations, Métis, or Inuit heritage.
  — Hazlitt, 17 Jan. 2024
• The third trip was to a remote part of North America – an Inuit village on the northern edge of mainland Canada.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
• The ancestors of today’s Arctic sled dogs came over from Siberia with Inuit people just 2,000 years ago.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
• The Alaskan Inuit language, known as Iñupiaq, uses an oral counting system built around the human body.
  — Amory Tillinghast-Raby, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
• There’s a persistent cultural myth that some Inuit languages have a dozen, or fifty, or a hundred words for different kinds of snow.
  — Catherine Bray, Variety, 19 May 2024
• Today, most Greenlanders are of Inuit descent and speak both Danish and Greenlandic.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• Among the Inuit, that stigma stems from memories of previous campaigns to diagnose and treat the disease.
  — Melody Schreiber, NPR, 2 May 2024
• The Inuit people have a long history of using kayaks for transportation, hunting, and fishing.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Bergmann’s and Allen’s rules also held up when comparing old data on body sizes in warm climates to those of Sámi, Inuit, and Yuit populations.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• Most of the company's guides are members of the Inuit community, which still hunts narwhal, according to strict quotas.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 28 Apr. 2024
• Many Inuit tribes, such as the Iñupiat of Northern Alaska, still rely on caribou meat for sustenance.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• That corresponds to how people count in Iñupiaq as well as other Inuit and Yup’ik languages, and often makes math more intuitive to students.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• The present-day Inuit, then, are a mosaic of at least three migrations from Siberia to the Americas, each successive wave intermingling with the peoples already there.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2019
• And Inuit cultures traditionally lived on what was essentially a low carb, high fat diet.
  — Outside Online, 17 July 2024
• The most recent shows the interior entryway of that house; an umbrella jar holds several walking sticks and two ancient Inuit harpoons with whale-bone barbs; on the wall above them hangs a gleaming nineteenth-century harpoon gun.
  — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
• About 500 women, most of them Inuit, deliver at Qikiqtani General every year.
  — Kelly Grant/the Globe and Mail (canada), San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
• Nunavut is Canada's northernmost territory, and home to the country's largest Inuit population.
  — Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
• Exhibitions there focus on early Norse settlements, Inuit ways of transportation, whale oil refineries and the Thule people, who are the ancestors of today's Greenlanders, .
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
• Another scene will feature Inuit people on North American ice during a midwinter day with walruses resting on ice floes, as well as storytelling about hunting and ice fishing.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2023
• Unless all of one’s ancestors are Inuit, Hawaiian or Native American — the inhabitants of the states before colonization — then all of us are descended from immigrants.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
• In other words, the old saw that the Inuit people have 50 words for snow may be wildly exaggerated (the original observation by the anthropologist Franz Boas isolated only four ways of describing snow), but there is something to it.
  — Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Research has also shown that Inuit living in Greenland have genes that modify fat type and distribution to better insulate their core, while people living in Indonesia are able to increase blood flow to their skin to facilitate cooling.
  — Amanda Heidt, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• This decision shows how Inuit can use the technology in combination with traditional wildlife management, says Arragutainaq.
  — Hannah Hoag, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• As a result, communication aimed at promoting awareness of climate change becomes politicized in Eastern Canadian Inuit languages.
  — Miki Mori, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2024
• With Canada’s military refashioning its relations with the Inuit by tapping into local knowledge, Canadian soldiers are heading north better prepared for the patrols, according to Inuit rangers.
  — Norimitsu Onishi Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• Accounts gathered from local Inuit people in the 1850s suggested that some of the crew members resorted to cannibalism.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• Cruise to Greenland’s breathtaking Scoresby Sund, one of the world’s largest fjord systems, and explore its towering icebergs, ancient Inuit villages and wildlife-rich tundra.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• Once on the ground visitors can enjoy Greenland’s rugged coastal landscapes, fascinating indigenous Inuit culture, and the opportunity to experience the country at its primordial best.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025