Delawares
- plural of Delaware.
Example Sentences
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But leaders of the Shawnee Tribe and the Eastern Shawnees, both now based in Oklahoma, like the Delawares, said they hadn’t had any discussions about it.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The framers from the big states, like Virginia’s James Madison, fought the idea furiously, but in the end, the Vermonts and Delawares had their way.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2020
At the same time, Senecas, Shawnees, and Delawares laid siege to Fort Pitt.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Imagine carving out of an expanse as large as 1.5 Delawares — a mound as tall, from base to peak, as Mount McKinley in Alaska, the tallest mountain in North America at 20,237 feet.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2014
The decision to join the Moravian church made other Delawares uncomfortable.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
