tribe

Example Sentences

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The tribe expects its state funding will be gone by the end of June, and is already laying off personnel from work that tribal leaders hoped would help employ tribal members long term.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

But Ashaal’s family, part of a powerful tribe in south Yemen, was the rare case where the victims refused to be silent.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

They’d been together going on two decades when Semple lost herself, miserable in an overcast city without a tribe of her own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Humans’ trusting nature makes sense for social creatures who must cooperate with members of their own tribe to survive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

But she would not be persuaded, and when the Travelers moved on, she went, too, leaving the peace and security of her old home to wander with the man she loved and his tribe.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda