How to Use Paiute in a Sentence

Paiute

noun
Definition of Paiutenext
  • They are believed to be from the Paiute and other tribes.
    — Dana Hedgpeth and Emmanuel Martinez, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Benn, a substance abuse counselor and member of the Paiute Tribe, was killed at her Cedar City home in 1998.
    — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The local Paiute Tribe then collected the body for a Native burial.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Then a Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal ranger, shouting obscenities, rammed his truck into the blockade and the protesters were arrested.
    — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Lore has it that Little Mouse was a Southern Paiute outlaw who hid from authorities within these winding walls, surviving off rainwater in natural basins, or tanks.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023

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