Example Sentences

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It’s an ability the teams they claim to be chasing, the Kansas Cities and Buffaloes and Miamis of the world, can do seemingly at will, not just occasionally.

From Washington Times • Oct. 9, 2023

Early inhabitants had been Shawnees, Miamis, Wyandots, and numerous smaller tribes, but retreating bands of Delawares and others had joined them from the East.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

There will be dozens of Miamis and thousands of Tangiers.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2016

“It used to be the San Franciscos, the Miamis, New York,” said John Tanzella, the president and chief executive of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association. 

From New York Times • May 30, 2014

Wayne’s units entered what is now northwestern Ohio and established a base they called Fort Defiance in the heart of an Indigenous alliance that included Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, and Wyandots.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz