indebt

Example Sentences

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The French hosts also won praise from negotiators for using a mixture of informal huddles, or indabas, and traditional shuttle diplomacy to bring the deal home.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2015

Then, as the decision spread throughout the tribe, children and women, young and old, banded together to watch these final indabas.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus

One would like to see big "indabas" held at every town and centre in the country, formal raising of the Union Jack, cannon salutes, bands playing and parades of soldiers.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Dolbey, Robert Valentine