How to Use longhouse in a Sentence
longhouse
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From his longhouse, at sunset, there was the squawk of parrots, and the night sky soon filled with stars.
—Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
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And across the hall from the longhouse, ancient saga manuscripts are also on display.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
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Because of the rain and the bad roads, we were stuck in a bamboo longhouse a day’s drive from a hospital.
—Brent Crane, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
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The main island still holds the remains of the chieftain’s longhouse at Borg and a cluster of Viking Age boathouses.
—K.n. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2017
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In the longhouse and out in the mountains, the food-gathering is accompanied by song.
—Deepa Bharath, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
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The longhouse is the focal point of the village and the people from various tribes who live along the Columbia River.
—Brooke Herbert, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
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After Scandinavia turned Christian around C.E. 1000, looms were brought into the main living area of the skáli, the longhouse.
—Francine Russo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2022
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The ruins are right in the middle of the village—also one of the oldest villages in the Islands—and contain longhouse and barn foundations.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
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Researchers believe the presence of the large longhouse could indicate how wealthy and important Gjellestad was during the Viking era.
—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2021
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On selected evenings, an actor playing the role of the Viking Chieftain welcomes visitors to the longhouse for a feast full of storytelling and song.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
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In a series of meetings at the Musqueam longhouse, leaders from the three communities worked through key differences over land.
—Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
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The artifacts were buried in a longhouse by an Iron Age chieftain, revealing that Vindelev was a center of power at the time, the museum added.
—CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
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Its centerpiece is an open-sided thatched-roof longhouse built on a slope that overlooks a green expanse of lawn and flowering trees on one side, and a bend of the Palomino River on the other.
—Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
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As the Duwamish struggle to get federal recognition, the longhouse serves as a monument to their identity.
—Greg Scruggs, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
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Remains of a medieval timber longhouse were also found, which suggests the site was occupied after the early part of the 13th century.
—Fox News, 4 July 2019
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Every villa features a butler, and the spa is styled after a traditional longhouse designed as a small stilted village at the heart of the resort.
—Jim Dobson, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
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The family was honored at the tribes’ annual Christmas Celebration on Dec. 24 in the Tribes’ longhouse.
—Wil Phinney, oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2022
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Like a longhouse in Asia, the spaces open onto a patio (outfitted with a serious barbecue) and the house's playground beyond, with its lawn, pool, and small prairie of grasses.
—Joseph Giovannini, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2015
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On a port call in the village of Kasaan, for example, travelers visit a 19th-century Haida longhouse, said to be the last remaining structure of its kind in the United States.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
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The event also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the tribe’s longhouse, a traditional shelter built with Western red cedar that sits on less than an acre of land — all that the Duwamish tribe still owns of its ancestral home.
—Greg Scruggs, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
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Today, in addition to the center, there are three trails, a representative garden (featuring the Three Sisters — corn, beans, and squash), and a full-size replica of a bark longhouse open to the public.
—Patti Nickell, Philly.com, 1 Dec. 2017
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Today, the powwow that accompanies the Celilo First Salmon ceremony, usually held in mid-April at the village longhouse, is open to the public, with a salmon picnic to follow.
—Corey Arnold, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
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Two of the biggest troublemakers on set, according to the cast, were Kristovich and her sister Delores Churchill, age eighty-nine, who helped anchor the early scene of Haida women passing time in the longhouse.
—Julian Brave Noisecat, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
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Perched above a creek and surrounded by banana trees and muddy rainforest, the longhouse was home to fifteen people: a leathery matriarch, her two sons (the shamans), each of their wives, their two unmarried sisters, and eight children.
—Manvir Singh, Wired, 14 July 2022
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The buildings demolished early Saturday in Seneca Falls housed several businesses, a longhouse and a day care center.
—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
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An 1855 treaty ceded this stretch of territory to the U.S., but the new building, inspired by the style of a traditional longhouse, celebrates the place’s original stewards with stained-glass portraits and wood carvings by Indigenous artists.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 May 2021
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Sunlight streams into the longhouse during a recent ceremonial meal with elders at historic Celilo Village.
—Deepa Bharath, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
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Built of various materials including wood, stone, and turf, the Scandinavian longhouse was a large hall where inhabitants ate and slept, with additional rooms for storage.
—National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
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The longhouse, which was the multi-family clan living space for the Haudenosaunee in the time before European contact, is now predominantly used for ceremonial purposes.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
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Interior additions were made to the longhouse; like additional seating and sleeping structures and an outdoor kitchen and cooking area with seating there for programming purposes.
—Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2021
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