tepee

Example Sentences

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Instead of a steel column stiffly supporting a billboard the avant-garde designer created a tepee of irregularly shaped, leaning vertical planes programmed with digital art and ads, all specifically designed for irregular screens.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

As Sitting Bull spoke, his younger wife entered the tepee and threw sticks on the fire before reclining in its glow.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2021

To commemorate their return, the tribe raised a traditional tepee longhouse on the crest of the property.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021

On a recent Friday, he was constantly in motion, sporting torn green coveralls and a sweat-stained hat, hugging visitors and pulling wagons and directing people to a tepee past the hay bales.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2018

He was looking at his hands, which he’d folded into each other like the top of a tepee.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green