headman

Example Sentences

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The village headman summoned her and said that by garlanding Nehru, she had become his bride.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2023

The village is deemed "at risk" by Fiji's government and headman Josevata Nagausaukula contemplates a future in which children now honing their rugby skills have been shifted, with their families, to higher ground inland.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022

One of the members, Ram Prasad, a former village headman from an upper caste, said the initiative would break the taboo associated with the act.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2022

The headman was a strikingly handsome, muscular man, wearing a beaded antelope hide tied over one shoulder, a pair of denim shorts and tire-tread sandals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2018

The headman stopped outside the wood-framed, skin-covered hut.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman