How to Use longhouse in a Sentence

longhouse

noun

• 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
• And across the hall from the longhouse, ancient saga manuscripts are also on display.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The first people to make their mark on the lake were Native villagers who built longhouses near the lakeshore.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• 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
• In the longhouse and out in the mountains, the food-gathering is accompanied by song.
  — Deepa Bharath, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As the Duwamish struggle to get federal recognition, the longhouse serves as a monument to their identity.
  — Greg Scruggs, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• The family was honored at the tribes’ annual Christmas Celebration on Dec. 24 in the Tribes’ longhouse.
  — Wil Phinney, oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The buildings demolished early Saturday in Seneca Falls housed several businesses, a longhouse and a day care center.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Sunlight streams into the longhouse during a recent ceremonial meal with elders at historic Celilo Village.
  — Deepa Bharath, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024