How to Use Choctaw in a Sentence

Choctaw

noun
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  • In 1909, two girls – one white and one Choctaw – subsist in the woods after fleeing abuse.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
  • The head prosecutor for the Choctaw Nation said that the tribe’s caseload increased by more than two thousand per cent.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Our latest taco excursion takes us to a restaurant in Choctaw Stadium, the former home of the Texas Rangers.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 16 July 2024
  • New insights into the potato famine in Ireland were revealed, as well as the oppression of the Choctaw Nation.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But the Jackets bothered Choctaw with their run-and-jump defensive pressure in the second half and upped their production.
    — Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In New Orleans, they were joined by French-descended pirates, Choctaw warriors and free men of color.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • Some assistance has come from the Choctaw Nation, the country’s third-largest Native American tribe.
    — Julie Satow, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Native American Choctaw Indians were the first to use this spice as a seasoning.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The gift also reminds West of a traditional Choctaw story.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The play is about the experience of the outsider in America—immigrants, the Choctaw, the Black majority in Mississippi; those themes feel very clear and strong in the text.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 21 July 2023
  • According to the press release, there were five Choctaw police officers at the game, per usual, as well as two officers on duty who stopped by.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Coming from Choctaw Nation descent, Bell captured in his art Indigenous culture and wildlife.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Val’s quest to uncover the truth wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The director also insisted on meeting with the Choctaw Nation to get their input and develop a partnership.
    — Laura Clark, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Six restaurants and a nursing home had follow-up health inspections in May, and all of Choctaw Stadium’s concessions were visited, according to city data.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2024
  • An obituary published by the family said Benedict, a descendant of the Choctaw Nation, loved nature and cats, particularly their pet Zeus.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Before European colonization, Louisiana was home to more than a dozen tribes, including the Chitimacha and Choctaw.
    — Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2021
  • Interestingly, etymologists disagree about whether gumbo gets its name from kombo (the Choctaw word for filé) or gombo (the word for okra in several West African languages).
    — Leslie Brenner, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The public initially knew little of this because the sheriff refused to release information, on the ground that Barrick belonged to the Choctaw Nation and therefore the arrest fell under the jurisdiction of tribal police.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • In Choctaw County, this group likely includes a significant portion of the working-class Native population, whose Democratic allegiance is on the wane.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • As Fisk’s criminal empire closes in, episodes open with mysticism-heavy flashbacks to the first Choctaw people and to some mystical source of ambiguous power that Maya is tentatively beginning to tap into.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Gauna is a Choctaw native and Mexican American actor from Midlothian.
    — Jerome Weeks, Dallas News, 19 July 2023

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