How to Use Maasai in a Sentence

Maasai

noun
  • Word had already spread throughout the neighboring Maasai communities, and people were on their way back with baskets, bags, and pots.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Well over 1,000 Maasai had come to see the strange spectacle that had descended on their land.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The Maasai kept their land rights but usually stayed away during the few months when sheikhs and millionaires arrived.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Cimbia Shield bag embodies the brand’s emblem, a modern interpretation of the Maasai shield.
    Essence Fashion Editors, Essence, 9 June 2023
  • This makes the country home to a twin migration event, alongside the annual movement of two million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of other antelope species crossing the Serengeti and the Maasai Mara.
    Ali Wunderman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2021
  • But to actually take in the whole of the Maasai Mara from my bed, bathtub, or even in the bathroom mirror’s reflection, ambling giraffes and elephants moving across it and visible to the naked eye, was something else.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The Beading Studio stands as a shining testament to this, where Maasai women, skilled in the art of beadwork, create masterpieces of intricate design.
    Paul Jebara, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • The nomadic Maasai tribe also lives in the area, herding their cattle and often welcoming visitors as tour leaders or selling their handmade items.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Her biggest fear is that such lion attacks will become even more common in her Maasai village that borders Amboseli national park.
    Evelyne Musambi and Desmond Tiro, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • The Maasai people are hunter and gatherer nomads who eat a very limited diet, primarily relying on their cattle for meat, milk and blood.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • For example, visiting a Maasai village, enjoying a street food lunch, and staying in eco-lodges that support local conservation efforts.
    Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Traditional pastoralists like the Maasai in northern Tanzania maintain large spaces of natural savanna where wildlife and people thrive together.
    Derek E. Lee, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023

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