Example Sentences

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Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism.

From Time Magazine Archive

To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego.

From Time Magazine Archive

We tried for three days to sneak Onas baby out, but the guard stood near whenever the doors were open.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

For the Future we will sell no Lands but when Brother Onas is in the Country; and we will know beforehand the Quantity of the Goods we are to receive.

From The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742 To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents, and Allies by Thomas, George, Sir

Nothing delighted the Indians more than to receive the great Onas as their guest.

From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank