How to Use Maori in a Sentence

Maori

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• Bennett’s thriller dives deep into Maori culture and gives voice to its complex characters.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• Proving, once again, that penguins are beloved by animators all over the world, the duo was also excited to explore New Zealand and the Maori culture.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 June 2023
• The idea of developing a national Maori flag first arose in the 1980s, inspired by the use of the Aboriginal flag in Australia, also as part of an Indigenous protest movement.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• These findings are based on a careful study of the oral histories of the Maori and other related cultures, which describe encounters with a land to the south that probably was Antarctica.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• Forty-seven people were on Whakaari, the island’s traditional Maori name, at the time of the blast, including honeymooners and families, who either died or suffered severe burns in the incident.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 13 July 2023
• New Zealand – or Aotearoa as it is known to the Maori – recently hosted a public consultation on whether to include te reo Maori on 94 types of road signs, including for place names, speed limits, warnings and expressway advisories.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 29 July 2023
• Caught up in grief, and pulled by a dark attraction to her late-sister’s fiancé, Mia soon uncovers the wider tensions and mysterious forces cleaving apart a rugged mountain community, setting environmentalists and Maori farmers against one another.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024