Polynesian

How To Use Polynesian In A Sentence

• It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• A throwback to the Polynesian craze that swept North America in the '50s and '60s, the restaurant is full of Eastern Island statuettes, wooden tikis and a Hawaiian ukulele soundtrack.
• Tahitian Americans in the United States may also observe the French Polynesian celebration of Bastille Day on July 14.
• Austin examined the DNA of a small Pacific island lizard (Lipinia noctua) and found that on islands west of the Solomons it was genetically diverse but on Polynesian islands it was more uniform. Pacific Lizards or Red Herrings?
• Blue - and - white eyespots adorn the velvety black wings of a butterfly on a Polynesian island.
• The Easter Island compound - called rapamycin after the island's Polynesian name Rapa Nui - was found to extend expected lifespan by 38 per cent when tested on mice. Clipmarks | Live Clips
• And as Murray writes, everybody enjoys the college experience as it is provided today - no ego-damaging exams, yes walk-in orgies, Polynesian islands full of coconut trees where responsability or commitment are unheard of. Charles Murray on Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• The Hawaiian word kahuna meaning "priest" sounds remarkably similar to the Hebrew word for priest, but unless you can devise a story about an ancient encounter between Semitic tribes and Polynesians, it is likely that the two languages just happened to hit upon the same combination of sound and meaning in this one instant. Archive 2009-04-01
• Timor-LesteAustronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority Ethnic groups
• No song, no dance, no tobacco, no liquor, no alleviative of life -- only toil and church - going; so says a voice from his face; and the face is the face of the Polynesian Esau, but the voice is the voice of a Jacob from a different world. In the South Seas