Yuma

[ yoo-muh ]

noun

, plural Yu·mas (especially collectively) Yu·ma

1. a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
2. the Yuman dialect of the Yuma Indians, mutually intelligible with the dialect of the Mohave Indians.
3. a city in SW Arizona, on the Colorado River.

Example Sentences

Last month, Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke told inewsource that the San Diego sector was receiving four to seven buses a day filled with about 50 people each from Yuma so they could be processed.

From Voice of San Diego

Head to Yuma, which the Guinness Book of World Records has designated the world’s sunniest city, for a permit and an ATV rental.

From Outside Online

While driving through 116-degree Yuma, Arizona, on a late-August road trip, when every other food item not in the cooler melted in the van, I was surprised to find my drinks floating in ice and chilly water.

From Outside Online

The light gray line shows how much water flowed on the Colorado at Yuma.

From Voice of San Diego

The first movie—3:10 to Yuma—starred Glenn Ford and came from a 1953 story that had appeared in Dime Western.

From The Daily Beast

He pointed to Yuma, Ariz., as a prime example of where that partnership works.

From The Daily Beast

“They told me I was going to get deported,” Chang said of the border-patrol officers she encountered on the outskirts of Yuma.

From The Daily Beast

Of the twenty trappers who had accompanied them across the plains from Fort Yuma, only seven remained.

From Project Gutenberg

Their food is amole, bellota and pinole and their chiefs are called Mule and Yuma.

From Project Gutenberg

Your Yuma, who ran away, showed too much skill to be a servant.

From Project Gutenberg

The Yuma proper are large physically, and finely proportioned.

From Project Gutenberg

From these Yuma Indians I take the name for the group now under notice.

From Project Gutenberg