How to Use tribesman in a Sentence

tribesman

noun

• En-mei’s replies, the first interview with a Jarawa tribesman.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• And lined along the ridge of the river, there were thousands of African tribesmen each holding a shield and a spear.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2023
• Six of the tribesmen and two of the attackers were killed, while the rest of the assailants fled, according to the young man.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• And so perhaps Obama is in fact a Luo tribesman by this logic of blood.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
• The liner notes described one track as a funeral song to mourn the passing of a tribesman.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• Giles attached a transcript of En-mei’s replies, the first interview with a Jarawa tribesman.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• Before killing Elliot and his friends, the Huaorani exchanged gifts with them, and one tribesman even took a ride in their plane.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• Surrounded by a game-rich countryside, the boy learned to hunt from an old Kikuyu tribesman.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• The four women found in the most recent discovery are believed to have served as guardians of camp while the tribesmen were out on the warpath.
  — Fox News, 9 Jan. 2020
• The truffle hunters huddled on the ground as the tribesmen opened fire on the attackers in a gunfight that lasted for about an hour.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• That, in turn, left him fixated on the idea of going to Borneo and living like a native Penan tribesman.
  — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2018
• Soon the canoes overtook Coetzee, and a tribesman lassoed him from six feet away with a nylon rope.
  — Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 7 Feb. 2011
• The Bari had been fighting a losing war with Venezuelan ranchers, who paid a bounty for every dead tribesman.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• Trapped in a giant Tridacna clam, his body was brought to the surface by his fellow tribesmen in Palawan, a province of the Philippines, in May 1934.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• The Kani tribesmen detect their presence by looking for air bubbles coming out of the hollows.
  — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2017
• The officials and the tribesmen spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to talk to reporters.
  — Ahmed Al-Haj, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• Arab tribesmen, meanwhile, are viewed with suspicion by both Turkmens and Kurds.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• One of the film’s protagonists is a young tribesman named Joseph Madang, who eventually became one of Bob and Robin’s closest friends.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• The militants were poised to attack a band of local tribesmen when their movements likely startled the wild pigs, which overwhelmed them.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• It was scouted by 10 local Bedouin tribesmen, and gives visitors the chance to not only hike through the area, but also do some scrambling and rock climbing.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 18 Mar. 2023
• Prince Hamzah’s rich Arabic lilt (acquired during a youth living with tribesmen) appeals to the Bedouin and contrasts with the king, who grew up speaking English.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• The tribesmen also fear the wrath of the militants, who frequently kill alleged informants.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• The dismissal of Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, a popular army commander, brought many of his southern tribesmen out in protest.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• The local gentry would marshal the peasants, laborers and tribesmen into polls that would choose each Parliament.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Like tribesmen laying out a sacrifice to placate King Kong, news outlets continue to make offerings to the Clinton gods.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 21 Apr. 2017
• Many of the displaced live in camps, while others are staying with relatives, fellow tribesmen, and strangers, while others yet have been relocated to other Iraqi cities.
  — Igor Kossov, The Atlantic, 10 July 2017
• The blow, delivered by a Zuni tribesman, removed him from the first military encounter between Europeans and first peoples in the future United States.
  — Josh Jacquot, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
• In 2006, two fishermen, believed to be drunk on palm wine, accidentally floated toward the island and were killed by tribesmen.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Islamabad had described the incident as an attack on a Pakistani border post in the Kurram tribal region, saying it was carried out by Afghan forces and tribesmen.
  — Fox News, 19 Apr. 2018
• That conflict pitted Cairo’s modern Army against determined tribesmen, the forefathers of the Houthis, who resented the intrusion of a foreign power and wanted a return to the imamate.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024