How to Use Sioux in a Sentence

Sioux

noun
  • Supposedly, the buck just might still be alive, and if so, is in the Sioux Falls area.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But the Sioux have refused the money because accepting it would forfeit their claim to the land.
    Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
  • Trump is scheduled to be back on the campaign trail tomorrow with an event in Atlantic and Sioux City.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Mays was at a movie theater in Sioux City, Iowa, when the projectionist stopped the film to make an announcement.
    Dan Brown, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Nia Sioux, along with sisters Maddie and Kenzie Ziegler, chose not to attend.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • Next example is this recent gem listed in the Sioux City Journal.
    Jeff Gorke, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • It was created on a mountain that is considered sacred to the Lakota Sioux, and has long been a source of debate.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • The Fort Peck Sioux Tribe also said she was not enrolled or eligible to be enrolled.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Dallas, Texas will be just 11 degrees, and Sioux City, Iowa may see an air temperature of -20 degrees.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • She was temporarily banned from the Oglala Sioux reservation in 2019 after the protest dispute.
    CBS News, 13 May 2024
  • With interest, that sum is now around $2 billion, but the Great Sioux Nation still refuses the money, saying the land was never for sale.
    Abc News, ABC News, 28 July 2023
  • In the 2020 census, Sioux County was one of the only nonmetropolitan counties in Iowa that grew its population.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But the narrative focuses on a white U.S. Army officer making friends with local Sioux, only to fall in love with a white woman raised by the tribe.
    Sandra Hale Schulman, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In Sioux City, Iowa, people with houses along the river began returning to their homes Wednesday to find scenes of destruction.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 27 June 2024
  • Mikkelson was raised in Sioux Falls, where his father ran a towing company and his mother was the company's bookkeeper.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • South Dakota prosecutors charged a Sioux Falls man on Monday with first-degree murder and aggravated eluding in the death of a deputy who was struck while putting out spikes during a police chase.
    CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Accompanied by her maid and private secretary, a smartly dressed woman of obvious high standing descended from the plush first-class rail car and took stock of the small city before her on the banks of the Big Sioux River.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • For a short period of time, the camp, which never grew to more than 5,000 people, was on territory relegated to the Sioux Nation and officially outside the boundary of the United States.
    Barry Garron, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This exact scenario happened early last Saturday morning when a Target shopper in Sioux, Iowa, found a six-foot-long boa constrictor in her shopping cart inside the store.
    Jada Jackson, House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Federal authorities seized the fossil in 1992, claiming it was illegally removed from a Sioux ranch held in trust by the government.
    Andrew Johnston, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2024
  • His student Ella Cara Deloria, meanwhile, worked on understanding the linguistics of the Sioux language.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The hotel is within walking distance to nearby attractions, museums, local art galleries and eateries and guests can also explore downtown Sioux Falls with the property’s bikes.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • After complaints and failed efforts to change the code, Sioux City decided to lean into its unfortunate designation and, more recently, has expanded it well beyond the airport.
    John McCormick, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023

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