How to Use tepee in a Sentence
tepee
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There’s pictures of them with wolves in front of their tepees.
—Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 5 Aug. 2017
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Acres of land were covered with tents and, yes, tepees.
—W. Kamau Bell, CNN, 13 May 2017
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Its trunk begins five feet off the ground, sprouting from a tepee of roots.
—Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
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Form a tepee with three 6-inch-tall sticks, and place smaller sticks on the floor as a platform for the tinder.
—Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
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Toward midnight, a half-dozen of us climb a hill behind the tepee.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
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The flaps of the set’s tepees are smeared red from all the people entering and exiting.
—Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
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While eating in the tepee in the village his legs were suddenly laced with pain.
—David Treuer, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
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Hinman said part of the farm’s appeal was sitting around a fire in the tepee and drinking hot cocoa.
—Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 19 Dec. 2017
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The tepee where the wife and husband lived was unquestionably hers.
—Mona Gable, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
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Protesters set up the poles of a large tepee that stood partly on the road and partly on the Enbridge driveway.
—Jordan Shearer, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2019
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Add homespun charm to your decor with our tepee and campfire cross-stitched pumpkins.
—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
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That may be building with Legos, sitting alone in a tepee or reading a book.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
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There is art and clothing and jewelry, and a tepee where mannequins gather around a fake fire.
—Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
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The tribe moves through the Taiga forest with its reindeer, following the moss the herd snacks on every few weeks, setting up tepees as needed.
—Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2018
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Then build a towering log-cabin fire structure around the tepee.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2017
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On Friday, there’s a station set up behind the tepees where the performers put on redface.
—Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
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But in a garden setting, Ms. Elliott said, a bamboo tepee and some twine work better.
—Margaret Roach, New York Times, 1 May 2020
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Attendees were housed in white tepee-like tents, with portable toilets set up down a dirt path.
—Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
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Light the tinder, and once the sticks catch fire, layer on more kindling, then another tepee of larger logs, keeping the doorways open.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2021
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Long branches can be lashed together on one end to make a tepee or ladder form (zip ties are super-helpful for this!).
—Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 21 Mar. 2020
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Groups of friends were erecting tepees next to camper vans overflowing with grubby children.
—Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
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Planet Marfa, an outdoor dive bar with a courtyard centered around a tepee and a school bus, was my go-to spot to escape the afternoon heat with a cold beer.
—Anna Mazurek, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
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The central tepee at Cave City — which originally housed a restaurant — stands three stories tall and contains 18 tons of steel.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2021
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Those of us who join the archaeologist at the prehistoric site are the last people to see the ten-thousand-year-old ashpits and tepee circles.
—Anna Badkhen, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
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There are also off-grid plots, R.V. hookups, Airstreams, yurts, ski huts, farmhouses, tepees, tiny homes, tree houses, cabins, and cottages.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
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The triangulation principle gives extra strength to the tepee form, but boxlike structures can be made to work, too.
—Barbara Damrosch, The Denver Post, 5 May 2017
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Native American tribal members spend the week living in a tepee village just outside the rodeo grounds and perform dances in full regalia.
—oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019
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The bigwigs from the company Grandad founded - by burning grasslands and bulldozing tepees - are invited, and Andrew hopes the old man will give him a hoary thumbs-up with the board and win him a promotion.
—Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
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But before Young even showed up, the presence of tepees dotted the stage, and actors dressed as gardeners set about sowing seeds in various plants placed among waiting microphones and gig stands.
—Hilary Hughes, Esquire, 9 Oct. 2016
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Organizers had installed a skateboard ramp, a DJ and a garden tepee for those tender Tinder moments.
—Jessica Roy, The Cut, 4 Aug. 2017
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