wigwam

How To Use wigwam In A Sentence

• In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
• Small, single-family wigwams and pit dwellings are also documented.
• There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore. Les Miserables
• These wigwams were built of branches of trees placed in a circle, which are bound at the top by a kind of creeper called supple-jack. The Red True Story Book
• The Wigwam Resort is turning its ballroom into a football stadium with a huge rear-projection screen flanked by Roman Colosseum-like pillars.
• The others were those who could not be at the grove full-time - due to work, home, or an aversion to sleeping either 80 feet up a tree or in a wigwam made of tarps set on a gravel logging road.
• In one place we read of the surprisal of an Indian fort in the night, when the wigwams were wrapped in flames, and the miserable inhabitants shot down and slain in attempting to escape, “all being despatched and ended in the course of an hour.” The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
• On Tuesday I had my 2nd exam, at the inconveniently late time of 6pm I may add, in ‘the Crypt’ - the morgue-like underbelly of Paddy's Wigwam.
• My grandfather's legs were like the central pole that held the whole construction up and as the wigwam moved I would move with it. GYPSY MASALA
• paleface," for, here and there, his wigwam might still be seen sending its wreath of blue smoke above the tree-tops. Wrecked but not Ruined